Comment Re:Perl is Hard for Beginners (Score 1) 279
My standard advice for this question is "Read the first two chapters of "Programming Perl". Chapter one gives you a one-man-show version of the bells and whistles. Chapter 2 (The Gory Details) describes how the language works. After that you should have a basic grip on the language and things will be much easier.
These two chapters are the parts that don't come with the online documentation. *EVERYTHING* else in the book is also included in the documentation that comes with perl. I recommend a 'perldoc perl' for an overview of what's there. You'll most propably will need perlfunc, perlvars and perlfaq.
This applies of course only to experienced programmers who only migrate from another programming language. I'd recommend using something more wheenie-like than perl to actually *learn* programming, but that's a completely different story.
These two chapters are the parts that don't come with the online documentation. *EVERYTHING* else in the book is also included in the documentation that comes with perl. I recommend a 'perldoc perl' for an overview of what's there. You'll most propably will need perlfunc, perlvars and perlfaq.
This applies of course only to experienced programmers who only migrate from another programming language. I'd recommend using something more wheenie-like than perl to actually *learn* programming, but that's a completely different story.
