How about python? Many people consider it's better than Perl and it becomes more and more popular.
> On Oct 26, 2013, at 7:23 AM, "Bob goolsby" <bob.gool...@gmail.com> wrote: > > "Learning Perl", Schwartz, Phoenix, defoy, and others, (AKA The Llama Book) > is the best introductory book on Perl. The book is entertaining, > enlightening, and in it's sixth edition -- it's that good. > > Perl will change how you look at Computer languages. There are two mottoes > in the Perl World: "There's More That One Way To Do It (TMTOWTDI, pronoounced > Tim Toady), and "Make easy things simple and hard things possible". Perl was > the first languageI ever encountered where the Language did not get in the > way of implementing solutions. It has just enough 'boiler plate' -- syntax > that has to be there to keep the Compiler happy, to prevent a Perl program > from disolving into an unreadable mush of characters (here's looking at you > Ken Ivorson). Once you get comfortable with Perl, most every other Language > feels clunky and contrived. > > Perl tries to stay out of the way and let you concentrate onwriting solutions > to problems. > > Welcome to the Zoo, where we keep the strange and wonderous creatures! > > > B > > > >> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Mayuresh Kathe <mayur...@kathe.in> wrote: >> hi, this is my first mail to this list, and the first time i'll be >> working with perl. >> >> i've been searching for books on learning and mastering perl and found >> the series by o'reilly to be quite well recommended. >> >> would i be right in my assumption about the o'reilly books being good? >> if not, are there any better books out there, for a newbie to perl and >> for someone returning to programming after a gap of more than 7 years. >> >> thanks, >> >> ~mayuresh >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org >> http://learn.perl.org/ >> >> > > > > -- > > Bob Goolsby > bob.gool...@gmail.com
