Goals for this Hour
In this hour, you learn what tools are available with the standard Perl distribution to help you develop smart, fast programs.
In this hour, you learn about
Exchange, a demonstration currency translator written in Perl
Checking code quality with -w
Online Perl documentation and information
Other useful Perl commands
In the preceding lesson we used a simple FTP front-end program as an example of what you can do in a few lines of C. This lesson will offer a different program, one that lets you do easy currency translation to prepare you for travel overseas.
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