[ale] Learning Perl

[Kevin O'Neill Stoll]

Thanks all. Let the learning curve begin :)

--- Fletch <fletch at phydeaux.org> wrote:
> >>>>> "esoteric" == esoteric  <Geoffrey> writes:
> 
>     esoteric> I believe we've been through this one before, but I
>     esoteric> recommend the Oreilly camel book, learning perl.
> 
>         ITYM `llama book'.  The camel is _Programming Perl_.
> </pedantic>
> 
> 
>         The later is more of a language reference, so unless you've
> got a couple of languages under your belt (preferably one of which is
> in perl's family tree (C, shell, awk, sed)) it may not be the best
> resource for picking up the language.  If you're a non-programmer,
> _Beginning Perl_ by Simon Cozens may be a better starting place.
> 
> 
>         I'd already forwareded this to the original querent, but this
> URL has several good recommendations on how to start perl:
> 
> http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/~sburke/pub/perl.html
> 
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