Re: how to print (was: extracting sender's name for use in a script?)
On 16Aug2006 01:27, Petar Bogdanovic <p+lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 07:06:50PM -0400, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
| > On Wednesday, August 16 at 12:49 AM, quoth Petar Bogdanovic:
| > >Please excuse my ignorance but how do you compile a pearl-script?
| >
| > You don't; it's an interpreted language, which means that there is a
| > perl process that re-interprets your program every it runs (much like
| > a shell script).
|
| Therefore, I ask myself why Peter tried to compile it. :)
Because a lot of perl modules ship with some C code. For example, to
link to some external library and thus offer a module that offers the
library facilities as perl module calls. Anyway, Peter himself shows
why.
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