Re: Where and how to start learning Perl

[gjb]

Excellent list, congratulations!

I could have missed them, but it seems a few nice sites aren't mentioned you might want to include:

• http://www.perl.com somewhere, a lot of interesting articles can be found there, as well as a nice tip of the day.
• Also http://use.perl.org is a good news site on Perl, although the most important stuff gets mentioned on PerlMonks as well.

I didn't check, but if no similar resource is available this would be a nice entry for the tutorial section or the FAQs.

Just my 2 cents, -gjb-

[webmasta]

For learning Perl the TMTOWTDI paradigm of Perl applies:
there's more than one way to do it.

#So how come theres only one way to do comments?
hmmm...

webM

[Limbic~Region]

webmasta,
To my knowledge there are quite a few ways to do comments.
• # comment goes here
• POD comments documenting your code
• __END__ comments follow
• Acme::Comment

  I have even seen some people use here docs for comments, though it really is code. I am sure creative monks have found even more.

  Cheers - L~R

[NetWallah]

use strict;
my $TMTOWTDI = "There IS more than one way to do it";
my $MeaningfulVariableName = "Is another way";

 $MeaningfulVariableName =0, "And if you get creative, even more";
  *SomeOtherWayToSayIt = *MeaningfulVariableName ;
 SomeSubroutine($MeaningfulVariableName , "Extra arg used as a comment
+");

I'm sure there are other creative ways to do it - I'm not recommending any of this - it's just that this node invited a challenge.