On 09/07/2018 09:18 PM, Vadim Belman wrote:
You're pretty much mistaken here. No documentation can replace a good book. No documentation is capable of providing enough in-depth understanding of The Concept.
Hi Vadim, You are, of course, correct. And we are also talking at cross purposes. Your point is that you can not expect a "dictionary" to teach you how to speak a language. And you are correct. My point is that the dictionary should teach you how to use the word in question. I do believe I am correct in my assertion too.
I am a sleepy kind of person too. But I managed to get through Perl6 Deep Dive by Andrew Shitov in the only possible way: having the book on my iPad and Vim on my notebook. Now I'm considering giving a try to the recently released Learning Perl6 book – as soon as will have any time for this.
I get to print "Hello World\n"; and THUD. Head hits the table. I have tried so many times and finally realized and gave up. The only way I learn is by doing. This is especially exasperated as I am not new to programming, only to Perl 5/6. I have been know to write an outline of what I want to do (Top Down) and then fill the code in as I go. I greatly prefer Perl 6 as I live and breath Top Down and Perl 5's sub declarations are a nightmare. Perl 6 is a wonderful clean up of Perl 5. I only program now-a-days in Perl 5 if I am forced to by the lack of a mature module base in Perl 6. Yours, -T