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Re: The Road to Enlightenment?by graff (Chancellor) |
on Oct 03, 2007 at 04:32 UTC ( [id://642301]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Here are the sources that have brought me true satisfaction in my use of Perl, in order of relative importance for my progress:
The ranking I first started learning perl by working with a fairly large and elaborate (multi-source-file) app that was written in Perl 4 by someone else. I didn't really have time to read a whole book... During that early introduction phase, I recall being astonished, first of all at the relatively low proportion of alphabetic characters in the code (the app was heavy on regexes and substitutions), and secondly at how quickly I was able to read it with comprehension and adapt it (partly because I already had the basics of regexes from using unix "grep/awk/sed"). The basics of syntax were never a problem for me, since it was close enough to C to be comfortable, and the sigils (back in the perl4 days, at least) were very easy to grasp -- having read their description once (I don't even remember which perldoc man page I read it from), it just stuck with me. I'm sure perldoc perlintro came in very handy in the early days, but by now I hardly remember looking at it. (I'm not sure I would find it so easy if I were to start from scratch these days -- things have gotten more intricate and subtle, esp. with the sigils...)
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