Bryan Harris wrote: > > > DO you really think that would be in the documentation? > > > > Read 'perlhist': > > How do you know this? I would never have thought to come up with the 8 > letters - "perlhist". I just look on the Perl Bookshelf from O'Reilly, but > I couldn't find any reference to the birthdate. > > I think that's remained one of my biggest frustrations -- people ask a > question on the list, and someone will reply saying, in effect, "Hey, dumb > dumb, the answer is right there in perldoc perlre!" How in the world is a > beginner supposed to know that? So in this case, how should I have gone > about looking for that magical 8 letters above? > > If that's one of my biggest frustrations, I'd say I'm doing pretty well. > Isn't perl great? =)
Furrfu, kids today. When I starting programming in Perl there was one man page, no books and no web sites. :-) John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
