note apotheon <p>The first couple chapters or so of the Camel book are the best quick introduction to Perl I think I've ever seen for someone who's already a programmer (in other languages). It's certainly valuable for that if no other reason, to say nothing of the fact it's kind of an entertaining read.</p> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-397229"> <p align="left"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td align="left"><font color="#ffffff" size="2"><b>print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);</b></font></td></tr></table></td> <td align="right">- <font color="#0000ff">a</font><font color="#3355ff">p</font><font color="#6688ff">o</font><font color="#99bbff">t</font><font color="#99bbff">h</font><font color="#6688ff">e</font><font color="#3355ff">o</font><font color="#0000ff">n</font> <br /> [http://ccd.apotheon.org|CopyWrite] Chad Perrin</td></tr></table></p> </div></div> 543480 543531