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- From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@ora.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,news.answers,comp.answers
- Subject: comp.lang.perl FAQ (part 0 of 2)
- Followup-To: comp.lang.perl
- Date: 23 Jun 93 17:49:58 GMT
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- Archive-name: perl-faq/part0
- Version: slightly modified from $Id: perl-intro,v 1.2 92/11/30 05:22:42 tchrist Exp Locker: tchrist $
-
- [I have not changed anything here, but I haven't seen Tom post this in
- a while. Maybe I'm going to become the FAQ maintainer... sigh. For
- one thing, this FAQ doesn't address the Llama Book... a glaring
- oversight. :-)
-
- This version is slightly updated from the one I posted a few days
- ago, as pointed out to me by Henk Penning <henkp@cs.ruu.nl>.
-
- -- merlyn]
-
- This article contains the table of contents to some of the most
- frequently asked questions in comp.lang.perl, a newsgroup devoted to
- the Perl programming language. There are two pieces following
- this, the general information questions in part1 and the largely
- technical opnes in part2.
-
- They're all good questions, but they come up often enough that
- substantial net bandwidth can be saved by looking here first before
- asking. Before posting a question, you really should consult the Perl
- man page; there's a lot of information packed in there.
-
- Some questions in this group aren't really about Perl, but rather
- about system-specific issues. You might also consult the Most
- Frequently Asked Questions list in comp.unix.questions for answers
- to this type of question.
-
- The current version of perl is 4.035 (version 4, patchlevel 35).
- There haven't actually been 35 updates to perl4; rather, the context
- diffs posted to the net have been broken up into 35 news-digestable
- chunks.
-
- This list is maintained by Tom Christiansen, and is archived on
- convex.com [130.168.1.1] in the file pub/perl/info/faq. If you
- have any suggested additions or corrections to this article, please
- send them to Tom at either <tchrist@convex.com> or <convex!tchrist>.
- Special thanks to Larry Wall for periodically reviewing this list for
- accuracy and especially for writing and releasing Perl in the first place.
-
- print "Just another Perl hacker,"
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