Neal wrote:
> I am starting to learn Perl as the ksh scripting language
> My environment is AIX 5.3 running some sort of 5.8 PERL.
I was struggling trying to learn Perl via DJGPP on Windows 95 (?) and
Programming Perl:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596000271/index.html
Programming Perl is a hard core language reference; I needed a gentler,
learning-oriented book. Also, Perl is very much Unix-centric; any other
platform adds idiosyncrasies that don't exist on Unix/ Linux/ BSD.
Life became much easier once I built a Linux box and bought Learning
Perl:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520106/index.html
The Perl Cookbook is an excellent practical and learning resource -- it
contains lots of useable, idiomatic Perl code with solid explanations:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003135/index.html
When you're ready to start writing libraries of reusable code (e.g. Perl
modules), get Intermediate Perl:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596102067/index.html
HTH,
David
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