GLLUG meeting notes

basher584 basher584@usol.com
Mon, 02 Apr 2001 20:29:46 -0400


Dpk wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 09:57:31AM -0400, Mark Szidik wrote:
>
>    [snip]
>    Requested future topics:
>    Perl Programming
>    GnuPG
>
>    Anyone else have topics they want to presented?  Also, anyone
>    willing to present a topic or present one of the two topics above?
>
> My life is slowing down a bit to where I can attend, and also present,
> again.  I can do something on Perl... any of these interest people?
>
> - Introduction to Perl: data types and operations, control structures,
>   basic regular expressions, etc.
> - Intermediate Perl: references and nested data structures, advanced
>   regular expressions, using libraries/modules, etc.
> - Secure/safe CGI programming using perl and CGI.pm
> - Using perl functions to avoid system calls and `backticks` for
>   platform independant and safe code
>
> Dennis

I was interested in sorting out perl name spaces, ie my, local, etc.  the
details of argument passing, references and your third point looks
interesting (Secure/safe CGI).

-Benjamin Noggle