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mackenga · Apr 30th, 2005, 2:21 PM

On a Unix box, the Perl manpages are actually incredibly good. Try "man perl" to get started. There are plenty of tutorials in there on various subjects.

For a bit of extra strictness, you can start your Perl programs with:

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use strict;

which can make things more comfortable for C/C++ programmers and is a good idea anyway.

I think there are two things about Perl - nay, three - that are 'hard' and the rest is easy. They are the weird data types (very unlike other programming languages; not ints and chars here, just scalars, lists and hashes), the regular expressions (if you're not already familiar with them they can be mind-boggling), and the object oriented stuff.

Persevere though. There's nothing quite like Perl.

Apr 30th, 2005, 2:21 PM	#4
mackenga Professional Programmer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Glasgow, Scotland Posts: 317 Rep Power: 4	On a Unix box, the Perl manpages are actually incredibly good. Try "man perl" to get started. There are plenty of tutorials in there on various subjects. For a bit of extra strictness, you can start your Perl programs with: (Toggle Plain Text) use strict; use strict; which can make things more comfortable for C/C++ programmers and is a good idea anyway. I think there are two things about Perl - nay, three - that are 'hard' and the rest is easy. They are the weird data types (very unlike other programming languages; not ints and chars here, just scalars, lists and hashes), the regular expressions (if you're not already familiar with them they can be mind-boggling), and the object oriented stuff. Persevere though. There's nothing quite like Perl.