Re: [Boston.pm] The second P

2012-01-27 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 08:12:45PM -0500, Federico Lucifredi wrote: I have a need to properly learn a certain other P language, and I do not mean PHP either. For Perl, my favorite concise summary is the first chapter of Damian's OO Perl book. What about the other, unnamed, language?

Re: [Boston.pm] The second P

2012-01-27 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 01:12, Federico Lucifredi flucifr...@acm.org wrote: Okay guys,  I haven't gotten a definite answer on this when I asked a couple of years back, so I'l ask again - flog me as you may :)  I have a need to properly learn a certain other P language, and I do not mean

Re: [Boston.pm] The second P

2012-01-27 Thread Wayne Tackabury
, Wayne From: Federico Lucifredi flucifr...@acm.org To: L-boston-pm PM boston-pm@mail.pm.org, Date: 01/26/2012 08:16 PM Subject:[Boston.pm] The second P Sent by:boston-pm-bounces+wtackabury=us.ibm@mail.pm.org Okay guys, I haven't gotten a definite answer

[Boston.pm] The second P

2012-01-26 Thread Federico Lucifredi
Okay guys, I haven't gotten a definite answer on this when I asked a couple of years back, so I'l ask again - flog me as you may :) I have a need to properly learn a certain other P language, and I do not mean PHP either. For Perl, my favorite concise summary is the first chapter of

Re: [Boston.pm] The second P

2012-01-26 Thread Gyepi SAM
I have found the hard way (of going through the documentation) to be quite effective. First, I read the tutorial, then skimmed the language reference, then I jumped into the library reference with the occasional return to the language reference when I needed to convince myself that python's