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 -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]