A serious question

On 22 Mar 2006 08:56:58 -0800, amanda staggered into the Black Sun and said:

As another poster has recommended, get the Llama Book, read it, do the exercises at the end of each chapter. That'll get you started. It's possible to do a *lot* of things in Perl, so it's possible to adapt many C programming exercises to Perl if you need more examples. (No pointers like C has, though, not really.) The Camel Book can come later, it's more of a reference than a tutorial anyway.

Use -w. And use strict. And keep in mind what Perl is good at (text processing, interfacing with a wide variety of external modules) and what Perl is less good at (building very complex data structures and accessing them without jumping through hoops and using ugly syntax). Once you've got the basics down, remember that there are *tons* of useful Perl things on CPAN. (I like the gtk2-perl module myself; all the power of GTK2 attached to a quick scripting language so you can build small GUI applications pretty quickly.)

-- Matt GThere is no Darkness in Eternity-But only Light too dim for us to see Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin mail: TRAP + SPAN don't belong ----------------------------- penguins, is Tux." --MegaHAL