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  Scalars

  Posted: March 25th, 2010, 7:00am MDT

  If you're writing a program that involves computation, you're going to come face to face with some basic programming concepts. This article, the first of a five-part series, will explain scalars, one of the basic ideas of programming in Perl. It is excerpted from chapter two of the book Beginning Perl, written by James Lee (Apress; ISBN: 159059391X).
  - The essence of programming is computation we want the computer to do some work with the input (the data we give it). Very rarely do we write programs that tell us something we already know. Even more rarely do we write programs that do nothing interesting with our data at all. So, if were going to w...