On Apr 24, 2006, at 5:18 PM, Dan wrote:
I'm beginning to realize how many of my learning curve issues are
attempts to understand the very structure of a system created with a
bare minimum of structure.
Specifically, you're learning perl regular expressions, and perl is a
language that gives you a million different ways to skin a cat, so to
speak. As the quote goes "all things are permissible, but not all
things are beneficial".
It's also a programming language that many people tend to describe as
looking like line noise (if you ever used an old dial up line, in
terminal mode instead of as a SLIP/PPP link, you may actually get the
joke ... especially if you had call waiting turned on).
Between the two, yes, it feels very unstructured.
In addition to the other book that was recommended, it might be a good
idea to pick up Learning Perl. It's easier to understand a thing when
you know how it thinks.
