Janet — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:52:29 +0000

After doing some research, I wish my website was not in perl, but it is too late now. I was really hoping to take over our site since there is so much I want to do, but it is hard to spends lots of money on a site not making any money. KWIM? I don't mind paying money out for programming updates, but little design changes I was hoping to be able to do myself.

I am a fairly quick learner, but I definately feel intimidated with using perl. At this point, I am not sure how I am going to proceed.

Thanks for your thoughts~

timjpriebe — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:10:03 +0000

I find myself using CPAN quite a bit. Often I'll just search Google to find what library I can use for some specific task, then I look that library up on CPAN.

Maintaining others' Perl code can be a pain if you're somewhat of a newbie to Perl. I know it's too late now, but if someone else is developing code for you that you will be maintaining, I would suggest something more readable, like PHP.

Don't get me wrong, I love Perl. But Perl is one of those languages where there's 5 different ways to do one thing, so it can be a pain to work through someone else's code.

Anyway, good luck!