On 09/11/2018 08:17 AM, Laurent Rosenfeld via perl6-users wrote:
Hi Todd,
I fully agree with Tom B.'s message that you should really set out to
read a Perl 6 book. Many of the things you asked are covered in most of
the available books. And the available books are easier than the
official documentation for a beginner to start understand the basic
underlying concepts.
I should add that you don't even have to /buy/ one book, since my own
/Think Perl 6/ book is freely available on the Internet (Creative
Commons license): https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-perl-6/. Well, if
you are interested in reading it, I'd suggest you look for the PDF on my
Github repository
(https://github.com/LaurentRosenfeld/thinkperl6/tree/master/PDF),
because it is more up-to-date (number of small corrections made
following comments from readers).
So it would take you just a few minutes (at no cost) to download it and
start enjoying it.
Cheers,
Laurent.
Hi Laurent,
Ordinarily I would agree with you. But I know my own brain and
how it works. I only learn by doing. Have tried to change that
and can't.
When I "dive in", I open up the reference docs and bang away.
I also use Google, but that is next to useless in Perl 6 as Perl 5
hits drowned Perl 6 out.
I am 62 years old, have a bachelors degree in Electronic and
Computer Engineering, Cum Laude and have been programming
things all my life. I live with the reference page open
while pounding out code.
Perl 6's document are next to useless for me. This is the first
time I have come across references that were so badly done.
And programming of the Automated Test Equipment I did
had some documents to behold. CP-M was not fun either.
Do not misunderstand, I ADORE Perl 6. It is a wonderful clean
up of Perl 5, especially the subroutine definitions and regex's.
The only step backward is the docs.
The developers have their own specification/documentation.
The reference docs need to be written for the rest of us.
By the way, I never mastered Perl 5's regex's. I used them,
but could never figure out exactly what I did. In Perl 6
I now can throw them together off the top of my head. It
is kind of fun.
-T
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