Re: [OT] Learning PERL

2003-03-01 Thread Debian User
How bout " Elements of Programming with Perl" by Manning. "Andrew L. Johnson" I am half way through it and I also have that Progamming Perl Camel book that was way too hard to start on, but this other book is very easy to understand. I haven't yet looked at the Learning Perl book. -DU Thors

Re: [OT] Learning PERL

2003-01-31 Thread Thorsten Haude
Moin, * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-31 15:17]: > I know this is slightly off-topic but it's definitely related to >virtually all Un*xen I've ever come across. I have a colleague who has >never used a *real* OS but now as part of his job he has to. A few times >I've come across

Re: [OT] Learning PERL

2003-01-31 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:43:13AM -0600, DvB wrote: > Not sure what could be easier than the Camel... he might want > to take a programming course. > > As to online tutorials, you might want to try perl.com I find > the "Documentation" section to be a very good quick reference > guide, most of th

Re: [OT] Learning PERL

2003-01-31 Thread burningclown
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Andrew Perrin wrote: > A standard is "Learning Perl" > (http://www.bookpool.com/.x/h6ph9apwz1/sm/0596001320) > Learning Perl is really good. I got through the first seven chapters (2nd edition) and then picked up the -Perl Cookbook- ... it makes a good complement and has l

Re: [OT] Learning PERL

2003-01-31 Thread Steve Juranich
On 31 January 2003 at 14:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anyone recommend a book (or even better, and online tutorial set) for > this guy to learn basic PERL from. You know simple reg-ex's and the like? I cut my teeth on the Llama book (or alpaca, or whatever the heck that is) (http://www.ore

Re: [OT] Learning PERL

2003-01-31 Thread DvB
Not sure what could be easier than the Camel... he might want to take a programming course. As to online tutorials, you might want to try perl.com I find the "Documentation" section to be a very good quick reference guide, most of the time. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi, >I know this is sl

Re: [OT] Learning PERL

2003-01-31 Thread Ken Januski
I remember reading a review of a book from Manning Publications I think a couple of years ago that was both an introduction to programming and to Perl. That might do the trick. O n Fri, 2003-01-31 at 09:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, >I know this is slightly off-topic but it's definitel

Re: [OT] Learning PERL

2003-01-31 Thread Sam Rosenfeld
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 02:17:12PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, >I know this is slightly off-topic but it's definitely related to > virtually all Un*xen I've ever come across. I have a colleague who has > never used a *real* OS but now as part of his job he has to. A few times > I've c

Re: [OT] Learning PERL

2003-01-31 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 31 January 2003, 02:17 PM +): > Hi, >I know this is slightly off-topic but it's definitely related to > virtually all Un*xen I've ever come across. I have a colleague who has > never used a *real* OS but now as part of his job he ha

Re: [OT] Learning PERL

2003-01-31 Thread Andrew Perrin
A standard is "Learning Perl" (http://www.bookpool.com/.x/h6ph9apwz1/sm/0596001320) ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andre

[OT] Learning PERL

2003-01-31 Thread Kevin . Bewley
Hi, I know this is slightly off-topic but it's definitely related to virtually all Un*xen I've ever come across. I have a colleague who has never used a *real* OS but now as part of his job he has to. A few times I've come across him doing things like find/replace over and over in nedit to chang