"jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I admire your philosophy! I purchased Learning Perl on > win32 Systems by Schwartz, Olson & Christiansen read and > worked the exercises and use it daily but now at a point > where I want more.
Luckey for you, there is more. Someone anticipated your need. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl3/ Then click "Add to Shopping Cart" > I want to get a hard copy of the perl reference, but not > sure what and how to print it out. [...] IMHO -- don't reinvent "The Book". There were two great people who made Perl be so useful: Perl language Larry Wall Perl documentation Tim O'Reilly Without the great documentation, I don't think Perl would have gone as far as it has. I really think that the O'Reilly books are great. Good content (thanks to great authors), good organization (thanks to great editors), fun/educational/useful (thanks to Tim & staff). They hold together very well -- the bindings are more expensive than they need to because they work better than most bindings. That means that the book can be held open without breaking its back, despite many years of abuse. Buy one. Mark the everlovin' daylights out of it. Nick the pages, write on the binding, hilight the index, scribble all over the back pages, make marks from one section to another. (I often go the "wrong" section, only to find my hand written note to got the "correct" section, including page number). Maybe I'm missing your point, but I have found that the book is very useful, especially after I customize it. And it lays on my desk better than any sheaf of papers ever would. ANd it has an index. And it was designed to go together... But if you want to have hard copy of the executable output from perldoc, perhaps you will endure the paper copies flying all around your desk. Work styles vary. I like the bulk of my learning to come from the book. I use perldoc very infrequently to find the particular syntax of something that I vaguely remember. I use it less now that I have the Perl CD, since it's searchable. But I still use the paper books, and would not substitute the CD for the paper. They complement each other very well. -- Michael R. Wolf All mammals learn by playing! [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
