Dear list members: First of all, I am very sorry for the cross-posting of my message and if my message seems of-topic for some Perl lists to which I have just subscribed.
My name is Ahmed Khater. We, myself and one of my colleagues, are scholars in linguistics and are planning to be specialized in computational linguistics. We live in Egypt. After much search, we found that Perl is one of the perfect languages which could be used for creating codes relevant and useful to computational linguistics research activities. We are pretty new to programming though we are advanced computer users of Windows platform and many of its related software applications. We downloaded the stable production release of the complete Perl source code distribution: (stable.tar.tar) from the following Web site: http://www.perl.com/download.csp. Then, we didn't know how to use this utility. Next, We downloaded the ActivePerl binary distribution for Win32 which works with Windows: (ActivePerl-5.8.6.811-MSWin32-x86-122208.zip) from the following web site: http://www.activestate.com/Products/Download/Download.plex?id=ActivePerl. We installed this utility. Now, We need to learn this language and how to use it via the utilities we have donloaded but We don't know how and where to start. Could you send me either on or off the list your your suggestions as to how to start learning Perl within the Windows environment because we don't use unix? We are searching for electronic publications, books and documents that help us know basic programming concepts that pave the way for us to learn Perl in addition to documentation on Perl itself but for beginners. Further, we would like to find technical assistance while we are learning this language on my own. I hope that we can find the technical assistance here. Thanks are due to all who will read my post and, above all, to those who will possibly respond to it. Ahmed Khater [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's always hope that gives meaning to life _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
