[ale] Perl for begging-ners [ot]

[Dana Powers]

Also try www.perldoc.com. This is actually just a web-ified version of the
perl docs, but I've found the perl books are really just these docs on
paper. Try these for starters:

Intro to perl (w/ pointers to other docs):
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlintro.html

Index page of all docs:
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perl.html

Perl Syntax
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlsyn.html

In fact, if you go down the list in the References section, you'll get
explanations of all the major facets of perl programming.

Good luck, and welcome to my favorite language ever!
dpk

p.s. if you really start coding perl consistently, dont forget to check out
www.cpan.org for all the code you thought you would have to write, but
someone's beat you to it


----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoffrey" <esoteric at 3times25.net>
To: ale at ale.org
To: "ALE" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] Perl for begging-ners [ot]


>
>
> Eric Anderson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 17:45, MCover wrote:
> >
> >>Hi there,  I need to learn Perl.I need a good source, I have some C and
shell scripting experience.
> >>Any help will be greatly appreciated...
> >
> >
> > How about the documentation included with Perl? It is good, and easy to
> > read. I think it only took me a couple of hours to read/skim the whole
> > thing. Good way to figure out what is out there for Perl.
>
> I agree with the previous poster, the  "Learning Perl" O'Reilly book is
> the place to start.
>
> perldoc is great for reference, but not a learning tool.
>
> >
>
> --
> Until later: Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
>
> I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
> to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?
>
>
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