... Perl Easy or Hard? Perl is easy to use, but sometimes hard to learn This is a generalization, of course In designing Perl, Larry made many trade-offs When he’s had the chance to make something ... First, Perl is easy As you’ll see, though, this means it’s easy to use It’s not especially easy to learn If you drive a car, you spent many weeks or months learning how, and now it’s easy to drive ... wherever possible, we’ve tried to show when something may behave unexpectedly, whether that’s because it’s running on a non-Unix system or for another reason We hope that readers who know nothing...