Re: Teach me how to fish, regexp

From: Helgi Briem (HelgiBriem_1_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/09/03 

Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 10:53:53 +0000

On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 19:21:02 GMT, Henry <henryn@zzzspacebbs.com>
wrote:

>That's a lot of stuff, and in a reference format. Fortunately, the examples
>are generally quite good, but this isn't exactly the most friendly
>environment.

What do you mean? Plain text, a pageful at a time, readily
searchable, isn't friendly enough for you? How much more
friendly can you get. If you prefer, the Activestate distribution
of Perl for Windows, Linux and Solaris, comes with all the
documentation in html format. I use that a little, but usually
prefer perldoc.

>> Furthermore: Don't worry too much that some of this stuff looks
>> magical. It is. Perl is full of things that you just have to learn
>> about by immersion, and by repeated visits to the same documentation.
>> it can take a while before some of this stuff becomes automatic.
>
>Perl doesn't seem to be anything one can pick up quickly, that's for sure.

I disagree. Programming logic in itself takes a while, but
if you are a programmer, you can pick up enough Perl to do
useful things in a couple of weeks, *if* you learn how to use
perldoc. It is the very core of learning Perl, more important than
anything else.

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