I often feel like perlmonks is about 80% of what's wrong with perl 5 these days.
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 10:27 PM ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote: > On 9/26/18 6:36 PM, The Sidhekin wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 3:14 AM Peter Scott <pe...@psdt.com > > <mailto:pe...@psdt.com>> wrote: > > > > On 9/26/2018 3:21 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > > Do your really think any beginner would be able to figure out > > > "words" from the above? > > > > If the beginner had studied the metasyntax of function prototypes, > > probably. > > > > > > Yeah, that's where a beginner needs to begin, in order to learn Perl6 > > from the docs. > > > > Syntax, metasyntax, all sorts of basics ... > > > > I heard about people > > who claim to have taught themselves Perl 5 from the Camel instead of > > the > > Llama, but they are few and far between, and in any case, most of the > > Camel contains exposition, if dense. > > > > > > I learned Perl 5 from the man pages. It was more fun than efficient, > > but I could easily afford it: It was not (at the time) my job. :) > > > > But we're not all wired the same way. This endeavour looks to me > > neither fun nor efficient. > > > > > > Eirik > > > Oh my goodness, did you guys ever use "perl monks". They don't > usually answer follow up questions and the format is > excruciatingly difficult to write or follow things in. > > > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Computers are like air conditioners. > They malfunction when you open windows > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > -- brandon s allbery kf8nh allber...@gmail.com
