On Wed Apr 08 2009 @ 1:08, Richard Hobson wrote: > But, what's the advantage of "Programming Perl" when we have "perldoc"? > What does the book give me that perldoc does not?
One thing that nobody has mentioned is that Programming Perl hasn't been updated since Perl 5.6. There have been two major releases since that, and we're now at 5.10. Your system probably has some version of 5.8 if it's relatively recent. In many ways, the big picture is probably still the same, and many of the docs probably haven't been rewritten either, but the docs for your installation should be closer to the Perl you're actually working with. I second the recommendation that you look through the tutorials in perldoc. Many are excellent and perfect for intermediate development. I especially recommend these: perldoc perlreftut (How to make and use references) perldoc perllol (Arrays of arrays, more complex data structure) perldoc perldsc (All kinds of complex data structures) perldoc perltoot (Introduction to OO programming in Perl, not to OO itself) perldoc perlretut (Regular expression tutorial) perldoc perlopentut (How to open things in Perl - it's much more fun than it sounds) Hope this helps, T -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
