On 6/6/03 at 6:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greenhalgh David) wrote: > > On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 11:20 pm, drieux wrote: > > > > > On Thursday, Jun 5, 2003, at 14:33 US/Pacific, Greenhalgh David wrote: > > [..] > >> My thanks to both of you. The explanation was clear even to me, > >> much better than the book i am using to learn perl. > > [..] > > > > which book are you trying to learn from? > > > > > Several books, in fact. Basic learning to crawl stuff from Perl and > CGI by Elizabeth Castro and proper stuff from a book that's just > called Perl. I managed to leave it at work so i don't recall the > author, but that one is very comprehensive and is clearly written for > people who know what they are talking about. My /real/ problem is > that object oriented code is a foreign language. My job is with > microwave comms hardware and I have no need to do software at all, so > an explanation which is plain as day to people who speak the language > is far from that to a raw beginner like me. Nevertheless, it is by > challenging ourselves that we learn and it is by finding patient > souls like this list to nurse us through the process that we survive > the learning! >
Randal Schwartz wrote 'Learning Perl', published by O'Reilly. This has become widly recognized as the 'kind and gentle' introduction to Perl. I would reccomend you pick it up. He has also written 'Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules', also from O'Reilly, due out this month. This is probably a worthwhile title for you also. Regards, Andrew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
