From: "Dan Muey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Where could I find a good reference wrt starting Perl?
>
> For a beginner I'd highly recommend the Peachpit Press Visual Quick
> Start Guide to Perl By Elizabeth Castro ( I think ).
>
> It starts by not assuming you are already a 30 year unix veterin and
> explains everything in plain english and gives you examples of using
> the different things.
Different people need different introductory books ;-)
> Examples you can do right then and there and
> learn by doing, very helpful. That's something most of the oreilley
> books don't do really. They just basically Copy stuff straight from
> perldoc and assume you're going to understand What to do with that.
Well ... the copying most often went in the exact oposite direction.
The authors of the best known (not only) O'Reilly books are usualy
the same people that wrote the man/perldoc pages.
I agree though they too often assume you have a Unix backround.
I really love it when all the docs give you is a pointer to Unix
manpages. All I get from
man foo
is
'man' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
> So basically once/while you learn perl, instead of buying Oreilley
> books just go to your unix prompt And type 'perldoc' , look at the
> options then you can use that to look up anything that you'll find in
> the oreilley books, Although you won't have the cool looking animals
> but oh well. It's free and it's the same thing.
And it's basicaly what I did back when I started learning Perl :-P
Jenda
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