Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 08:39:01PM -0500, Tim Ayers wrote: > I agree with others that 'Learning Perl' is the best book for people > with little programming experiencing. Be certain to get the second > edition that has been updated to Perl 5 (which is VERY different from > Perl 4 that the first edit

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: good book to learn perl Date: Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 08:36:49AM -0600 In reply to:Dave Sherohman Quoting Dave Sherohman([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| Wayne Topa said: >| > I sure have found it that way. 99% of my books are ordered from >| > bookpool. >| &g

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
Wayne Topa said: > I sure have found it that way. 99% of my books are ordered from > bookpool. I've had Very Bad Experiences with bookpool - lousy service (particularly in dealing with backorders), slow (and expensive) shipping... I placed one order with them and will never do it again. For tech

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: good book to learn perl Date: Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 03:37:13PM +0200 In reply to:Shaul Karl Quoting Shaul Karl([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| > >| > saw a few on amazon ..not a whole lot of reader reviews of them tho >| > >| >| Isn't www.b

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-22 Thread Shaul Karl
> > saw a few on amazon ..not a whole lot of reader reviews of them tho > Isn't www.bookpool.com generally cheaper then amazon ?

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-22 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Tim Ayers wrote: > I haven't seen the second edition so I don't know how Randal starts it > off but in case he doesn't or for those who learn from the man pages > or by looking at scripts I will give an unsolicited edict: > > Start every program with > > #!/usr/l

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-22 Thread Tim Ayers
This is probably more than people wanted to know, but... > "N" == aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: N> can anyone reccomend a good book so i can start the task of learning perl N> ? :) N> i have virtually no programming experience, although i have managed to N> hack some perl scripts up at t

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-22 Thread Eric G . Miller
Don't forget the perl manpages! I've found they contain about 80% of the same text that is in the Camel Book (_Programming Perl_), plus a few things that aren't in that book. There are something like 40 different manuals on different aspects of Perl there! Admittedly, it's not as easy as having a b

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-22 Thread Matthew Dalton
Also available from O'Reilly is the "Perl CD Bookshelf". It's 6 books in html format on one cd. You get: Learning Perl Learning Perl on Win32 Systems Programming Perl Advanced Perl Programming Perl Cookbook Perl in a Nutshell ... all in html format, plus a bonus dead tree copy of "Perl in a Nutshe

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-22 Thread Adam Shand
> I have "Perl Cookbook" ISBN 1-56592-243-3. Here is the blurb on the back > cover: i would tend to recommend the oreilly "learning perl" for a novice. just read a chapter a night and do the excercises and in a week you should no 90% of the perl you're likely to need. if you need more after t

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-21 Thread Steve Tooke
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, aphro wrote: > can anyone reccomend a good book so i can start the task of learning perl > ? :) > > saw a few on amazon ..not a whole lot of reader reviews of them tho > > i have virtually no programming experience, although i have managed to > hack some perl scripts up at t

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-21 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 01:47:52PM -0600, ktb wrote: > aphro wrote: > > > > can anyone reccomend a good book so i can start the task of learning perl > > ? :) > recommend "Learning Perl", Schwartz and Christiansen. Don't let chapter I second that recommendation . . . and once you get get good a

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-21 Thread Dave Baker
> can anyone reccomend a good book so i can start the task of learning perl > ? :) Go with the O'Reilly "Camel" books - you can't go wrong with them. try: http://www.perl.com and: http://www.oreilly.com -Dave -- | oOOooO / --|oOobodoO/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --|

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-21 Thread ktb
aphro wrote: > > can anyone reccomend a good book so i can start the task of learning perl > ? :) > > saw a few on amazon ..not a whole lot of reader reviews of them tho > > i have virtually no programming experience, although i have managed to > hack some perl scripts up at times. > > thanks!

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-21 Thread Ian Stirling
I have "Perl Cookbook" ISBN 1-56592-243-3. Here is the blurb on the back cover: "Precious few books can meet the needs of novices and experts simultaneously. The Perl Cookbook does, and on nearly every page. It has the perfect mix of instruction, revelation, and attitude- exacly what I expected fr

good book to learn perl

1999-11-21 Thread aphro
can anyone reccomend a good book so i can start the task of learning perl ? :) saw a few on amazon ..not a whole lot of reader reviews of them tho i have virtually no programming experience, although i have managed to hack some perl scripts up at times. thanks! nate ---