On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 14:46, Robert Beau Link wrote: > -----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] > >
The best advice I can give is read the 3rd Llama (Learning Perl 3rd edition) cover to cover, read about references and closures in the 3rd Camel (Programming Perl 3rd edition), and finally choose a pet project to work on (mine was a Gtk/Gnome SQL editor) reading the 3rd Camel, perldoc, and Module docs as necessary. -- Today is Prickle-Prickle the 46th day of Discord in the YOLD 3168 Or is it? Missile Address: 33:48:3.521N 84:23:34.786W -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
