好几次, 别人问我会不会perl, 我都只能逃避这个问题. 看来在unix环境下做开发维护, perl还是必须学的.

perl不是新的编程语言，近年来涌出的python热潮，掩盖了不少perl的光辉.

perl 1.000
1969年Unix诞生于Bell实验室后, 1987年Perl首次发行, 以下是官方的信息:

1987

UUNET is founded with Usenix funds to provide commercial UUCP and Usenet access. Originally an experiment by Rick Adams and Mike O'Dell

Hmm, doubtful. The source code generally wasn't there when I needed it.
-- Larry Wall when asked if he learned Perl from the perl source

Perl 1.000 is unleashed upon the world. Some People take Perls' Birthday seriously. Behold as Randal sings Happy Birthday to Larrys' answering machine. The description from the original man page sums up this new language well. (18 December)

	NAME
		perl | Practical Extraction and Report Language

	SYNOPSIS
    	perl [options] filename args

	DESCRIPTION
     	Perl is a interpreted language optimized for scanning  arbi-
     	trary  text  files,  extracting  information from those text
     	files, and printing reports based on that information.  It's
     	also  a good language for many system management tasks.  The
     	language is intended to be practical  (easy  to  use,  effi-
     	cient,  complete)  rather  than  beautiful  (tiny,  elegant,
     	minimal).  It combines (in  the  author's  opinion,  anyway)
     	some  of the best features of C, sed, awk, and sh, so people
     	familiar with those languages should have little  difficulty
     	with  it.  (Language historians will also note some vestiges
     	of csh, Pascal, and  even  BASIC|PLUS.)   Expression  syntax
     	corresponds  quite  closely  to C expression syntax.  If you
     	have a problem that would ordinarily use sed or awk  or  sh,
     	but  it exceeds their capabilities or must run a little fas-
     	ter, and you don't want to write the silly thing in C,  then
     	perl  may  be  for  you.  There are also translators to turn
     	your sed and awk scripts  into  perl  scripts.   OK,  enough
     	hype.

从perl名字的解释来看, 它就是为数据操作诞生的,看来perl是数据开发人士必学的工具了. 自己虽然也做数据开发,却从来没有接触过perl. 工作上倒是很少碰到,不过这几次的面试中却因为这个丢了分. 无论Unix 还是 DataBase的职位,都希望招一个额外熟悉perl的, perl的应用还真广泛.为了更好的工作,不得不学啊.
perl的代码不易读性是出了名的, 稍微看了下, 好像是有点.但我还是来了,头痛的perl, 今年把你解决掉!