On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 3:14 AM Peter Scott <pe...@psdt.com> wrote: > On 9/26/2018 3:21 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > Do your really think any beginner would be able to figure out > > "words" from the above? > > If the beginner had studied the metasyntax of function prototypes, > probably.
Yeah, that's where a beginner needs to begin, in order to learn Perl6 from the docs. Syntax, metasyntax, all sorts of basics ... > I heard about people > who claim to have taught themselves Perl 5 from the Camel instead of the > Llama, but they are few and far between, and in any case, most of the > Camel contains exposition, if dense. I learned Perl 5 from the man pages. It was more fun than efficient, but I could easily afford it: It was not (at the time) my job. :) But we're not all wired the same way. This endeavour looks to me neither fun nor efficient. Eirik
