Hi GUys,

newbie in PERL....

i am tinkin of creating a MSN chat program kinda thing using PERL, so that me & my friends can communicate over e internet instantly while in diff location.

We uses Dynamic IP not static..........

so any ideas or recommendation so that i may draw some lights on this...........

thanks......best still if experts can guide me along

Eh .. so what exactly are you expecting us to tell you ?

"Go to your shell prompt and type: vim msn.pl. Ok, good. Now, press "i" once. Now, type the following : #!/bin/env perl, now press return .. good .. now .." ?

Learn to program in perl first, start of with small, achievable tasks [i.e.: do you know how to print "hello world" to the screen? how about to a file ? how about to have a client send it to a server and the server sending it back via sockets ?] .. and Then get to stuff like this. Also remember that programming is not so much about the program used but about technique and wit. And it's not something you learn in a week/month/year.

Good luck.

Creating a chat program is not a simple task. Perhaps you want to use programs that already exist, like aMSN, Gaim, Kopete, etc.

Thanks Guys for your advise,

Do you guys know of any articles//websites that provides some examples on this.........

Or maybe some "near to it" source code that were provided by some kind programmers whom were willing to share so i can take it as reference for learning........

Thanks

well a search on google for 'perl chat' pulls up alot of into.. also as spooon said check out the source of the opensource chat clients.. may not be in Perl but you can check them out for refrence ..


also,
introuble, where do i learn about this wit you speak of.. its not in any of my books..

xhi: I guess there is literature about wit .. but it most likely woun't help one gain it.