From: Dan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> My local pointy haired boss decided I should learn Perl over the
> weekend -- specifically to interact with databases and use in CGI
> programming. With the job market being what it is I said "Sure" and
> picked up O'Reilly's "Programming Perl". After a lot of reading I
> think I understand the basic structure of the language pretty well,
> and even can write some nifty (but perfectly useless) programs.
>
> My question is: when I go in tomorrow and start out is there anything
> I should know? Any suggestions, comments, or general warnings from
> more experienced Perl hackers as to what to do and what not to do?
I believe you should at least scan through the perl faqs. Run
perldoc perlfaq1
...
perldoc perlfaq9
Plus at least one CGI/WWW related FAQs on
http://www.perl.org/CGI_MetaFAQ.html
Jenda
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