On 2/2/07, Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear All,
I am a Perl beginners, and I have heard about Minimal Perl. Could you,
please, let me know if that would be a good option for a beginners start
learning/practice Perl? Or that 'flavour' of the language would work
better for more advanced programmers.
Thanks!
Hoffmann
Hoffman,
_Minimal Perl_ isn't a version of Perl; it's a book about Perl.
Whether it's a good place to start learning Perl depends a lot about
what you want to do with Perl, and what you already know. _Minimal
Perl_ teaches you how to use Perl to accomplish some common, and
tedious Unix sysadmin tasks quickly and easily using Perl. If you're a
sysadmin, or even a *nix power user, it's as good a place to start as
any. If you don't know what grep and sed are to beging with, though,
you're probably twice as likely to get lost along the way.
I've always been a big fan of _Learning Perl_ as a book to start with.
As for what version of Perl to start with, unless you're on windows,
your system probably already has Perl installed.
HTH,
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