Bob McConnell wrote:
From: Jenda Krynicky
This depends on your background. If you can program and just need to
learn Perl, it's perfectly adequate and sufficient. If it's your
first programming language, it's too dense. At least in the
beginning.
Unfortunately, more often than not it is actually the reader that is too
dense, not the documentation.
That may be true, Bob, but not all documentation are the same and the
perldocs seem more like a reference manual than a tutorial for
beginners, at least to me. And sometimes, it helps having figures
(i.e., for explaining what pointers are in C) to explain
things...something that perldocs seem to be missing.
In academia, it is common to blame the student, but up to a point, it
might be worth asking if the teacher can teaching things
differently...especially if enough students complain.
Ray
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