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Friday, 03 December 2004 05:03 |
The first time I got a successful perl program running was 3 years back .. and almost 2 days after that I got the formmail script to send the contents of a HTML form as email to me . From then on, I had corrected a lot of perl scripts . I had solved thousands of issues related to perls .... and have installed countless perl modules ..without understanding anything about PERL . !!
And finally when I decided to study perl .. I was in total confusion..
The last language I studied was C++ back in my college days ...after that , I only skimmed through books and google to get something done using any language. So , the new decision .. Study Perl.. turned out to be really difficult .
I tried reading books while lying in the bed .. only to wake up few hours later to realise that book was used as a pillow . Nope .. if you need to study perl , you should work on the machine while studying it.
I googled for "perl+tutorial" , and got X+n no. of sites but nothing interested my style of learning ..
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/Perl/start.html
Was too dull or slow .. !! I have studied C++ in my college days .. so learning the whole data structure was like boring Humanities class . Couldnt concentrate on the books for long . Perhaps it would be good for a complete newbie to the programming world.
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=Tutorials
Hmm see the site name , Perl Monks .. and they are !!! . The site has all the highly technical articles and tutorials which would be really useful for an advanced perl programmer . But who am I ? Just another tech guy who has just started to learn perl .
http://www.steve.gb.com/perl/lesson01.html
Rather than the taking the usual tactic of showing you how to write the bloody 'hello world' program, so beloved of all computer programming books, let's start with something a little different...
yes... a tutorial with a difference . Thats what I was looking forward to and there it is . Anybody who is against the conventional thinking and systems ... who has a desire to be different ... and who wants to study perl . .. here is it . I simply loved studying perl using this tutorial.. Thank you steve !!
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