Please remember that I have about 1/100 of your skill when you
explain things to me. (For instance, I have no clue what
`subset` is or how to use it.)
-T
On 04/30/2018 06:52 AM, Theo van den Heuvel wrote:
> Hi Todd,
>
> different people have different ways of learning things. Diving into the
> documentation isn't ideal for all of us. I find the book by Laurent
> Rosenfeld, "Think Perl 6", O'Reilly, extremely helpful in addition to
> the docs.
>
> My problem is that I am working with many and quite different
> programming languages simultaneously and that drives me nuts on a
> regular basis. Well, not much to be done about that, I'm afraid.
>
> happy perling,
>
Hi Theo,
Ya, no fooling.
I have been programming for about 35 years. I found I can not learn
from a "course". My head hits the table. I can't stay awake.
I have to dive in and program something I need and takes notes
as to how to do things.
I came from Pascal & Modula 2. What a cultural shift to Perl.
Perl fix my needs perfectly. Did a lot of bash script and batch
files too. Batch is truly the programming language from hxxl.
Never did learn "C". It has only proved an issue when I want to
make system calls.
The worst thing I had problems with in Perl was folks telling it
was "Lexiconical". What? I wish they would have also said "which
means Perl figures out your variables type on the fly, so you don't have
to type cast everything".
-T
