On Tue 08 Jan, Richard Torrens (RiscOS) wrote:
> > What do you mean? RISC OS Perl comes with the standard Perl
> > documentation, plus extra docs on the RISC OS packages. Perl is
> > basically the same whatever platform it's running on, so lots of
> > documentation you find on the internet will be relevant.
>
> Yes indeed. But at the beginner's level it's very difficult to sort
> priorities of such a heterogenous bunch of documents.
If you are wanting to learn Perl itself I suggest Programming Perl ("the"
textbook.) It is also available as part of "The Perl Bookshop", a CD also
containing the very good "Perl Cookbook". All standard HTML which causes
Fresco no problems.
(Full contents:
Perl in a Nutshell, by Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour & Nathan Patwardhan
Programming Perl, 3rd Edition, by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen & Jon Orwant
Advanced Perl Programming, by Sriram Srinivasan
Perl Cookbook, by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington
Perl for System Administration, by David N. Blank-Edelman
plus a paperback version of the nutshell book.)
As an amateur I find the main difficulties with RO Perl being understanding
the effect and limitations of it being staticly linked and how to get eg
HLML-parser to work.
Roger
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