Re^3: So, just what exactly is it about Perl?

[monoxide]

Probably the fact i didn't realise there was a command line tool for accessing the docs. I am used to having either text file, or .doc or decent online documentation/tutorials (damn windows users). But i know alot of people who don't want to learn perl because of a percieved lack of online documentation and tutorials and places for help. A few i have refered here, but i don't know if they have ever looked.

[ikegami]

In unix, man perl works as expected. In Windows, ActivePerl installs HTML documentation and I think it creates a shortcut to it. perl.com, perl.org and ActiveState.com all have HTML versions of the documentation. Am I missing something?

[Your Mother]

I don't think you or BUU are missing anything except the perspective of the newly arrived immigrant. Perl has a great doc base but I didn't know about any of it till I'd been coding perl for almost a year. It's nobody's fault, it's that Perl attracts those who don't have a programming background. Many of the hackers here are computer scientists and engineers but a lot of the hackers in perl at large are English majors, designers, linguists, biologists, etc who, being self-taught, may well have never heard of "man" or "perldoc" and don't know where to turn for help besides the top matches on Google for perl like, unfortunately, Matt's Script Archive.

[BUU]

You say "top matches on google", but when I do a search for "perl" on google just now, my top matches are:
1. Perl.com
2. Perl.org
3. Cpan
4. Activestate
5. Perldoc.com
All of which have links to online documentation. Are these links not good enough? Are they hard to find?