Blazer wrote:
I have limited experience of programming in C C++ - I cant claim to
know either of these well, but i do try to keep building on what i
know, when i can. I just kept reading that Perl was a very easy
language to learn. Is this true or is it propaganda???
All I know is Larry
I came to Perl with no real programming experience (I'd looked at C and
Java a bit, but never used them and messed around with simple BASIC at
school).
I was given the task of modifying a load of Perl code, so I went out and
bought the Learning Perl book (By Randal L. Schwartz Tom
Damien Learns Perl wrote:
I have experience in C and I find that Perl would have been a much
easier language to start with. You can write powerful code right away.
I started to learn Perl last month and I am blogging about it at:
http://damienlearnsperl.blogspot.com/
This is certainly not
On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 15:05 -0800, Blazer wrote:
I just kept reading that Perl was a very easy
language to learn. Is this true or is it propaganda???
Learning Perl wasn't any more or less difficult than any other language
I've learned. Are you a new programmer? It might be more difficult for
From: Blazer evanstroh...@yahoo.co.uk
To: beginners@perl.org
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 7:05 AM
Subject: How hard is it to learn this langauge?
I just kept reading that Perl was a very easy
language to learn. Is this true or is it propaganda???
Perl is quite easy to learn. Example if
chime in and say how
you would have done differently.
Thanks and regards,
Damien.
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From: itshardtogetone itshardtoget...@hotmail.com
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 12:34 AM
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: Re: How hard is it to learn
2009/2/8 Blazer evanstroh...@yahoo.co.uk:
I have limited experience of programming in C C++ -
Good. Perl has a C-like syntax, and supports a lot of C's idioms. It
is, in my experience easier to learn as a second language, after you
learned (at least some) other language.
I just kept reading
