Re: (1)[0] ok but not 1[0]
- From: Florian Kaufmann <sensorflo@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:41:15 -0800 (PST)
as useful as you expect. there are dozens of perl tutorials on the net
and almost all are total crap and full of mistakes and bad writing. in
many cases the authors also were self taught and thought they can create
a better doc. turns out that writing technical docs (especially
tutorials) needs much more programming skill and tons of experience
which most of those authors don't have (or ever will have). some even
I think you and Charlton Wilbur are perfectly right. By no means will
the document I am writing be better than "Programming Perl" or
http://perldoc.perl.org/ or other established documentation from an
objective point of view. Of course it will have a lot of mistakes and
errors in it, since I will never be a Perl professional but at most an
experience Perl user.
However it will be better from my subjective point of view. Its closer
to the way I am thinking. Its the way I am learning stuff - by
writting things down. Order stuff on paper until I can fully
understand it and have a concise view on it.
I don't know exactly why - "The C++ Programming Language" is a book
that is much more clear to me than "Programming Perl" - and I don't
think its just because I already know C++ better. Its because of the
way things are explained, specified.
Maybe you are right and I shouldn't make it public, because it will
definitely have much more mistakes in it than any official
documentation. So there is a concern that it would only confuse
people. Then again maybe there are people who can profit from it.
Maybe I have to make it very very clear in the abstract and/or
introduction that it's a book written by a non-professional and thus
will contain tons of mistakes.
Flo
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