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Re: tlug: Perl 5 kickstart



On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Rex Walters wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 12:34:35PM +0900, Totoro wrote:
> > Does anyone know offhand a quick-and-dirty guide to Perl 5?
> 
> If you're implying that you already know perl4, then you don't really
> *have* to learn anything new.  With very few exceptions, perl5 is a
> strict superset of perl4.

Not the case here! I'm going from pretty much the ground up.

> If you don't know perl at all, but are proficient in other Unix-isms
> (sh/ksh, awk, and sed in particular) the man pages should be enough to
> get started (but the O'Reilly "camel book" (_Programming_Perl_) should be
> considered mandatory).

I do have the camel book here, so I'll have to work through it and
see how it goes. Thanks!


David Riley

Hachinohe Institute of Technology
88-1, Myo, Ohbiraki
Hachinohe-shi Aomori-ken

http://w3.clat.hi-tech.ac.jp

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