#!/usr/bin/geekgirl

I’m such a geek.
No, really.
First I strongarmed Netscape 7.1 into recognizing my old email folders when my prefs.js file had been fux0red. (That was yesterday. Yes, I forgot to blog it. I was too excited at the time.)
Now I’m learning Perl.

See, I just wrote a Perl script:

print "What is your name? ";
$name = ;
chop($name);
print "Hello, $name!\n";
#this next line is necessary
#because otherwise the window
#closes immediately
sleep(30);

Wheeeeeeeeeeee! It says “What is your name?” and if you tell it “Ealasaid” it says “Hello, Ealasaid!” (it works for any name, how neat is that?!)
Yes, it’s embarassingly simple, but the last time I tried to learn a programming language was VisualBasic when I was like 8 years old or something. So I think I’m entitled to be excited, dammit!
Yay!
Many many thanks are due to my Dad and my boyfriend who’ve been telling me I could do this and willing to cheerfully answer my no doubt painfully beginnerish questions, not to mention supply me with links, books, and reassurance.