Geoff,

I guess I've written some "medium" stuff in Perl - if you consider making calls 
into a MySQL database on a remote machine and all that entails "medium" :-)

I'm afraid that I never really found a useful book on anything non-trivial. I 
have the "for Dummies" to remind me of the syntax, but when it comes to 
database access, I just used the time-honoured "modify someone elses source 
fragment" technique.

Actually - I was quite proud of that little application... I have a HomeVision 
controller (www.csi3.com), which I configured to present fixed-format messages 
down it's serial interface when "stuff happened". These serial messages were 
picked up by a (gasp) VB app which wrote them into a MySQL database. The 
intranet server then ran some PERL that queried the database gave reports on 
things like "how many times has the PIR in the dressing room been triggered" 
and presented them on a web page.

The data was, alas, lost in the great "why didn't I back up my MySQL crash" of 
October 2002, and I never had the heart to start things again :-(

Regards,

Mark


Quoting Geoff Teale <Geoff.Teale@claybrook.co.uk>:

> Here's a little piece of irony for you (in consideration of some posts
> earlier this week).
> 
> I am currently holding some discussions (to early to give details), but it
> is looking that quite likely that as a result of these discussions Perl (as
> a companion to C) may become part of my daily existence.  I wonder if my
> views on it as a language would change as a result of continued exposure (it
> certainly hasn't worked that way with VB :) )?
> 
> Anyhow, can anyone recommend a good Perl book or website from which a
> clueful developer could get a good idea of Perls more advanced
> functionality?  I'm not looking for "Teach yourself Perl in 24 hours"
> here... I already have an old copy of the Camel book kicking around, is it
> worth looking at a newer edition (I'm guessing not)?
> 
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