Re: Perl Newbie - Need good book recommendation
* Ed Yost [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-27 14:29]: Hi all, I am a complete newbie to perl and have no programming experience. Do any of you have a good recommendation on a book or resource for a beginner such as myself? I'm using O'Reilly's _Learning Perl_ and it's very clear. Like you, I have no programming experience (except for BASIC and Pascal in high school over ten years ago of which I remember exactly zero), and find the book's hand-holding style (jokes, focusing on one specific topic at a time, building on each concept, etc.) reassuring. I tried using online tutorials like the other replier suggests, but got lost. I think that method works if you know something about programming already, because most of the tutorials I came across (granted, they may not have been the best ones, and I didn't try hundreds before going for the book) assume a certain level of familiarity with basic programming concepts which I didn't have. -- Sat, 27 Sep 2003 16:17:00 -1000 Linux 2.4.20-20.9 Mutt 1.4.1i (2003-03-19) A legion of French Bosoms could not match the lucid beauty of your toenails! -- the surreal compliment generator Marc Adler -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Perl Vs ...
* Tassilo von Parseval [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-21 20:27]:
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 09:28:21PM -0400 Paul Kraus wrote:
Perl was pretty much my first language. Not counting Business Basic and same
old Pascal from high school. The more I learn the more I see that perl can
handle just about anything I want to do. How do you go about deciding if you
should use another tool such as C++ over perl? I am thinking about learning
another language and trying to decide what language would be best to learn.
To expand my skill set. Suggestions, Ideas, Book Recommendations?
I was always of the opinion that knowing C is one of the essential
things. Too many vital stuff is nowadays hidden away from the user in
more recent languages (such as portability issues and memory management
for instance).
C also has the advantage that it integrates tightly into perl. You can
write Perl modules as C extensions which is fun and will teach you a lot
about perl and how interpreters in general work.
However, C's learning curve is rather steep (but shorter than Perl's).
Would learning C++ do just as well? On many of the C/C++-related
websites/newsgroups they say that there's no point in learning C because
you'll have to unlearn a bunch of bad habits when you learn C++ (I
don't know either language, so I don't know what those habits might be).
Also, how commonly is perl learned as a first language?
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