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[Trevor Phillips]

Kevin Shackleton wrote:
> 
> So how do normal people pick up Perl?

I started with a web-based tutorial that covered the basic syntax, and then
went from there. I use HTML versions of the man pages an invaluable reference,
although there's times I can't find, or read wrong, something I'm trying to do
(as this thread demonstrated - altho it turned out my problem in the end was
confusion on my behalf).

> I always thought of Perl as a interpreter language under unix that

Interpreted, yes, but it's far more than a simple UNIX tool. (And very
efficient for something with the word "interpreted" in it - faster than Java in
a lot of cases, I've found.)

My specialty is web-based Applications, which Perl thrives in, but I've also
written an Image browser/sorter using the Perl Gtk modules, plus bunches of
command-line apps.

Apart from man pages, the only book I use a lot is the Eagle Book (Writing
Apache Modules in Perl and C), altho I keep meaning to pick up some more text
references.

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