-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 OK, drieux, you've got me convinced; it's all about perldoc. Your delicious semi-psychotic ramblings are just the aspect of the perl community that makes me cringe at the thought of going back to a M$ shop. But here's the problem with self-tuition from perldoc; it's gibberish. Similar in nature to the mac programming docs, which a friend (developer on mac for 20 years) once described as "13 books each of which has the other twelve as a pre-requisite for understanding." I've been diddling in linux for a couple years now and I still shudder when confronted with a man page. In my other life I'm a personal development trainer, very commited to structuring information suitably for a given audience. perldoc and man and the rest *are* structured suitably for a given audience...unix wonks. If you don't have the unix head set, if you're not a native speaker of that special dialect then man and perldoc and all manner of things are just plain intimidating.
I hear "Learning Perl" is the best bet for a structured set of exercises building in a graduated manner from simple to difficult. - -- beau -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8zZT8bMtNI7KvfxQRAp7RAKDESEw8hEjjhHY5jp+qZfAj1f8i+ACg0Lxa PDU+GIgRAnE7uP3eLm84DIw= =H37i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
