On Feb 5, Kevin Werckman said:
>I'm hoping to get a small study group together that are interested in
>making some serious progress learning perl. I also need a few good
>volunteers willing to torture the group with some challenging quizes.
I think the biggest obstacle for people learning Perl is grasping Perl's
idioms -- the things that you can do in Perl that you can't really do so
simply in other languages (well, except for Ruby...).
Stuff like:
@unique = grep !$seen{$_}++, @original;
and
/(.*?)\s*=\s*(.*)/ and $var{$1} = $2 while <FILE>;
I'd be happy to assist in the breaking down of such idioms and helping
people grok[1] them.
[1] "Stranger in a Strange Land", Robert Heinlein
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<stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course.
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