Subj : Beginners
To   : Bo Simonsen
From : tony summerfelt
Date : Fri Apr 09 2004 12:38 pm

Thu, Apr 08/04 05:30 PM, you wrote to All:

 BS> Do any of you know some good PERL beginners howto, I know there is
 BS> alot out there, but which of them is good?

when if first learned perl back in '95 i used a book called 'learn perl in 30 
days' (there were a bunch of 'learn <subject> in 30 days' books.)

it didn't really teach a lot of perl5, mostly perl4.

and at the time activestate was called 'hip communications'. their version of 
perl was a lot closer to the 'gsar' version of perl at the time...

there's also a few web pages you can hunt down. once is 'perl in 10 minutes' 
and another is 'perl in 20 pages' . something along those lines...

i believe that both assume you already know how to program  in something like 
C, but they'll give you a pretty quick start up...

perl takes about 10 minutes to learn...the perl magic, and regex's take a bit 
longer...i got lucky, i clicked in to the perl magic pretty much right away...

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