Subj : Beginners To : tony summerfelt From : Bo Simonsen Date : Sat Apr 10 2004 01:36 am tony summerfelt wrote to Bo Simonsen about ''Beginners'': 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? ts> when if first learned perl back in '95 i used a book called 'learn ts> perl in 30 days' (there were a bunch of 'learn in 30 ts> days' books.) Aha. Maybe there should be a FAQ for this echo, but I see the interest isn't that big. :/ ts> it didn't really teach a lot of perl5, mostly perl4. Is there a big difference? ts> and at the time activestate was called 'hip communications'. their ts> version of perl was a lot closer to the 'gsar' version of perl at ts> the time... Hmm..? ts> there's also a few web pages you can hunt down. once is 'perl in 10 ts> minutes' and another is 'perl in 20 pages' . something along those ts> lines... Aha, but you don't have a good reference? ts> i believe that both assume you already know how to program in ts> something like C, but they'll give you a pretty quick start up... Yes I figured there aren't far between perl and c. ts> perl takes about 10 minutes to learn...the perl magic, and regex's ts> take a bit longer...i got lucky, i clicked in to the perl magic ts> pretty much right away... regex is the cool thing about perl, it's seems like a big mistery to a person which is unfamilear with regex. Bo --- * Origin: <=== The Night Express ===> (2:236/100) .