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sl4ck3r	12 Oct, 2007 - 01:53 PM Post #1
D.I.C Head Joined: 22 Sep, 2007 Posts: 119 Dream Kudos: 25 My Contributions	I searched and found a few topics regarding learning pearl and starting out. A few of them referenced sites that listed books to learn with, but i want personal experience from people not a list of books to randomly choose from. Basically, I need to learn Perl. I heard the the o'reileys book has a lot of unix related commands in it. Since i'm weak at unix that would be painful for me to learn with. Is this true? Also i heard about a book called "Beginning Pearl, Second Edition" and was wondering if anyone had experience with it. I currently can program in Java used to do VB but forgot most of it. So i have a background in programming just not in Unix or Perl. Thanks for you time!
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girasquid	RE: Learning Perl 12 Oct, 2007 - 03:46 PM Post #2
Barbarbar Joined: 3 Oct, 2006 Posts: 1,294 Thanked: 18 times Dream Kudos: 725 My Contributions	"Learning Perl" is a great book if you're just starting out. It's what I started with, and a lot of other Perl developers will tell you that it's what they started with too.
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KevinADC	RE: Learning Perl 12 Oct, 2007 - 05:08 PM Post #3
D.I.C Head Joined: 23 Jan, 2007 Posts: 238 Thanked: 6 times Dream Kudos: 50 My Contributions	"Beginning Perl" is good. "Learning Perl" is also very good. Get the "Perl Bookshelf Reference" on CD. It comes with 5 or 6 perl books, Learning Perl is one of them. You can get used copies for a few dollars on amazon.com This post has been edited by KevinADC: 12 Oct, 2007 - 05:09 PM
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sl4ck3r	RE: Learning Perl 12 Oct, 2007 - 09:32 PM Post #4
D.I.C Head Joined: 22 Sep, 2007 Posts: 119 Dream Kudos: 25 My Contributions	i appreciate the replies guys. do either of you have a background with linux? do you remember them using many linux term's w/o explaining them?
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Amadeus	RE: Learning Perl 13 Oct, 2007 - 07:21 AM Post #5
g++ -o drink whiskey.cpp Joined: 12 Jul, 2002 Posts: 12,349 Thanked: 51 times Dream Kudos: 25 My Contributions	perl is not a platform specific language, so there should not be too much platform specific commands - there may be a few, but I'm sure there'd be explanations. In any case, any command could be researched pretty easily. Some of perl was developed from functionality on the UNIX shell, but it can all be translated.
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girasquid	RE: Learning Perl 13 Oct, 2007 - 10:06 AM Post #6
Barbarbar Joined: 3 Oct, 2006 Posts: 1,294 Thanked: 18 times Dream Kudos: 725 My Contributions	QUOTE(sl4ck3r @ 12 Oct, 2007 - 10:32 PM) i appreciate the replies guys. do either of you have a background with linux? do you remember them using many linux term's w/o explaining them? When I was first starting, I had no linux experience at all - they explained how I could get Perl working on a windows computer, and there wasn't anything that didn't get explained.
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KevinADC	RE: Learning Perl 13 Oct, 2007 - 11:12 AM Post #7
D.I.C Head Joined: 23 Jan, 2007 Posts: 238 Thanked: 6 times Dream Kudos: 50 My Contributions	QUOTE(sl4ck3r @ 12 Oct, 2007 - 10:32 PM) i appreciate the replies guys. do either of you have a background with linux? do you remember them using many linux term's w/o explaining them? There are a few Unix/Linux terms at best. Some perl functions are named after Unix functions, like "grep" and "sort" but they are perl functions, not Unix functions.
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sl4ck3r	RE: Learning Perl 13 Oct, 2007 - 05:07 PM Post #8
D.I.C Head Joined: 22 Sep, 2007 Posts: 119 Dream Kudos: 25 My Contributions	I appreciate the answers and i again thank you for your reviews. Hopefully this will help someone else in the future with finding a specific book as well.
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