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HOW USEFUL IS IT TO LEARN PERL PROGRAMMING ?

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Hi,

I have an opportunity to take an 'intensive' introductory course in Perl :

'Perl Programming I' offered by the University of Calif., Santa Cruz Extension. This course is taught over three full days of instruction/lab by the author of the text :

'Perl by example, 4th ed.' by Ellie Quigley.

Does anyone know how worthwhile this course might be ? And, in general, how useful is it going to be to learn Perl - I am a 'mixed signal' [mostly analog] IC design engineer working mostly at the transistor level of circuit design. What is Perl mainly used for in Linux/Unix or IC design ? Is Perl anything like Cadence's SKILL ? Would this help with self-learning SKILL [Cadence's courses in SKILL are way too pricey] ?

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as far as i know, perl programming is usually used in web programming..in which it can replace a word or group of words in one single click of the application..are you familiar with assembly programming??perl as well is a low level programming..it is programmed in notepad and run in command prompt..actually, at are school, they give us a seminar about this perl programming..they say its getting popular nowadays, especially in database programming..im not that educated with this programming language..so that's all i can share to you..bye
 

It seems to serve well in things like custom netlist
modifying scripts.

If you were trying to make a real CAD suite out of
point tools it would probably be handy. It plays well
with others.

I bought a couple of books and haven't cracked 'em
in any meaningful way. But it looks as learnable as
any other "regular" language, I guess the question
is more whether it will be useful to you.

Maybe Wiki-world would offer more useful sense of
that.

I'd pass on that "intensive" bit. Rather learn by doing
what needs done, and let it seep in slow.
 

If you want to learn a scripting language go with python.
 

aoper said:
If you want to learn a scripting language go with python.
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i was about to learn this python programming, i happen to download a portable software for this python..do you have knowledge about this python??:D
 

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