Re: Would Perl be a good choice for

[mah]

I started with Perl about 2 years ago. My previous experience was with BASIC & Pascal but I hadn't done any serious programming for about 8 years.

I needed to sign-on to an e-mail account, download the e-mails, extract the attachments and then convert the attachments into a flat file format to go up into our production system.

In my case all I needed was:

O'Reilly Learning Perl Book

O'Reilly Programming Perl Book

The CPAN library

The key is before coding look at what CPAN can give you. It saved me days of coding.

As for Perl, I found it very straightforward.

Basically: Don't try and re-invent the wheel. Look at CPAN!!

Best of Luck