This brought to mind a question that comes up every once in awhile. How did you go about learning perl?
My experience was that I read the first half of Elements of Programming with Perl and then jumped it. I happened to be in a heavily perl shop and and had a VB6 background. Aside from the basics I got from that book most my learning came from digging through code, flipping back and forth through Perl Cookbook and creating the occasional disaster and asking the "real" hackers questions. If I recall my point of enlightenment in order were 1) variable without types, sweet! 2) damn hashes are cool 3) wow, there is a lot of stuff on CPAN 4) wow, there is a lot of crap on CPAN 5) DBI is good 6) mod_perl 7) template toolkit = love 8) creating module packages is damn handy I'm still working enlightenment via map, the greatness of OO perl and what the hell is so cool about cramming a bunch of functions in one line (to the point it looks like you opened a binary file in vim) but I imagine eventually I'll get there. I think my experience isn't uncommon with perl people and was wondering what path others took. Scott Kahler On 10/4/07 10:52 PM, "djgoku" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Learning Perl 4th Edition > Authors: Randal L. Schwartz, Tome Phoenix & brian d foy > ISBN: 0-596-10105-8 > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnperl4/ > > Review by Jonathan C. Otsuka > Kansas City Perl Mongers > http://kc.pm.org > 2007-10-04 > -- Scott Kahler Systems Engineer uclick, LLC (an Andrews McMeel Universal Company) [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uclick.com www.gocomics.com _______________________________________________ kc mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc
