Re: Perl Questions

2009-10-10 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "sono-io" == sono-io writes: sono-io>Hello everyone. I'm new here, so please forgive me for sono-io> replying to a question before asking one, but I never here anyone sono-io> talk about "Beginning Perl" by Simon Cozens. Maybe because it's out sono-io> of print(?) but IMHO it's

Re: Perl Questions

2009-10-06 Thread sono-io
What is a good starter perl book to learn perl. Best learning Perl book is 'Learning Perl'. Also known as the Lama book. There are other good texts also, but imho that is by far the best. Hello everyone. I'm new here, so please forgive me for replying to a question before asking one, but

Re: Perl Questions

2009-10-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Uri" == Uri Guttman writes: > "RLS" == Randal L Schwartz writes: RLS> In the preface of the first edition of the Llama, I composed the RLS> following poem: RLS> A one-L Randal wrote a book, RLS> A two-L Llama for the look, RLS> but to whom we owe it all, RLS> is the three-L Larry Wal

Re: Perl Questions

2009-10-06 Thread Uri Guttman
> "RLS" == Randal L Schwartz writes: RLS> In the preface of the first edition of the Llama, I composed the RLS> following poem: RLS> A one-L Randal wrote a book, RLS> A two-L Llama for the look, RLS> but to whom we owe it all, RLS> is the three-L Larry Wall! keep

Re: Perl Questions

2009-10-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Tim" == Tim Bowden writes: >> Just a nit pick - it's the "Llama Book" - not the "Lama book": Tim> Bugger. I knew it didn't look quite right. Shoulda chased it up. In the preface of the first edition of the Llama, I composed the following poem: A one-L Randal wrote a book, A tw

Re: Perl Questions

2009-10-05 Thread Tim Bowden
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 09:20 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Monday 05 Oct 2009 07:01:47 Tim Bowden wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 15:03 -0700, Slick wrote: > > > I have a couple of questions. > > > > > > What is a good starter perl book to learn perl. > > > > Best learning Perl book is 'Learning

Re: Perl Questions

2009-10-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Monday 05 Oct 2009 07:01:47 Tim Bowden wrote: > On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 15:03 -0700, Slick wrote: > > I have a couple of questions. > > > > What is a good starter perl book to learn perl. > > Best learning Perl book is 'Learning Perl'. Also known as the Lama > book. There are other good texts a

Re: Perl Questions

2009-10-04 Thread Tim Bowden
On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 15:03 -0700, Slick wrote: > I have a couple of questions. > > What is a good starter perl book to learn perl. Best learning Perl book is 'Learning Perl'. Also known as the Lama book. There are other good texts also, but imho that is by far the best. > > Secondly, I am

Re: Perl Questions

2009-10-04 Thread Shawn H Corey
Slick wrote: > I have a couple of questions. > > What is a good starter perl book to learn perl. > > Secondly, I am kinda having trouble assimilating all the perl information. I > want to know ways that you all remember the format of a script as well as the > main items that are normally use

Re: perl questions.

2004-12-04 Thread Lawrence Statton
That's a really difficult (and somewhat pointless) question -- because Perl is so many things to so many people, what questions you ask a candidate are going to be based on the kind of programming you do. If your primary application for Perl is lots of little scripts, then you'll probably conce

Re: perl questions / exercices

2003-09-09 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ged wrote: > Hi all, > > I am currently learning perl reading all the material I can get my hands > on, but have no use for it on a daily basis. > > Because of this I am not getting the practice I need on a day-to-day basis > to gain more knowledge. > > Having co

Re: perl questions / exercices

2003-09-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Shishir" == Shishir Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shishir> I want to make a cross-platform utility that when provided Shishir> with the location of a directory structure generates the Shishir> following log, Shishir> 1) Date of creation Not possible in Unix. -- Randal L. Schwartz

Re: RE: perl questions / exercices

2003-09-05 Thread Ged
:56 GMT > To: Ged <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: perl questions / exercices > > Well since you've asked for it how about doing this, > > I want to make a cross-platform utility that when provided with the location > of a directory structure

RE: perl questions / exercices

2003-09-05 Thread Shishir Saxena
Well since you've asked for it how about doing this, I want to make a cross-platform utility that when provided with the location of a directory structure generates the following log, 1) Date of creation 2) Size on Disk 3) Build number of the component / executable. 4) Copyright info (if included