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Re: [PLUG] Perl introduction
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JP Vossen wrote:
| _Perl Best Practices_ is a *great* book. It's not really "intro"
| exactly and it has no exercises, but I found it really helpful in
| clarifying some of the murk that surrounds Perl (TIMTOWTDI) and,
| well, "best practices." I highly recommend it.
1. i'll definitely keep it in mind once i become more advanced!
2. OMG, WTF is TIMTOWTDI? (acronyms intentional)
| To really answer you actual question, and based on your posts to
| this list, I'd guess that http://minimalperl.com/ might be of
| interest.
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looks excellent, Minimal Perl really looks like it's a good start for me
| I'd also be interested to know why the books you mentioned don't
| meet your needs.
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| HTH, JP
well, it's not that they don't meet my needs. the problem with
O'Reilly books is that they're very excellent books, but one tends to
outgrow them very fast; they sort of lock you in at a certain level
without fully encouraging analytical processing (which is really the
whole point of perl ;)
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