On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 08:12:45PM -0500, Federico Lucifredi wrote: > I have a need to properly learn a certain other "P" language, and I do not > mean PHP either. For Perl, my favorite "concise" summary is the first > chapter of Damian's OO Perl book. What about the other, unnamed, language? > Guido has written up a short language on the book, but what else has proven > popular with people who already knew Perl to expand their range of dynamic > languages - without reading hundred of pages?
I started with perl by hacking on other peoples' code. If you already know another C-family language (and syntax-wise both perl and python are C-ish) then you should be able to do useful stuff on small projects straight away, and then move up over time to larger projects and then to writing your own stuff from scratch. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information More people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol. -- W C Fields _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
