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- From: mike@meiko.com (Mike Stok)
- Subject: Re: getting started
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.113310.16810@meiko.com>
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- References: <1992Jul22.212350.12051@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 11:33:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.212350.12051@tamsun.tamu.edu> rse8135@dewie.tamu.edu (R.S. Etheredge) writes:
- >Howdee,
- >I am a brand new introductee to the wilds of perl. I have purchased an
- >O'Rielly & Associates book entitled Programming perl, by Larry Wall and
- >Randall Schwartz. I have just started reading the Getting Started chapter.
- >Anybody have experiences to help accellerate the learning curve?
- >Have a happy day...
-
- Rusty,
-
- *don't* think in C, I always found that saying a perl expression or
- construct out loud helped me, it's a much more 'human' language than
- C. Also remember that lots of decisions are better as until or unless
- rather than the while (! condition) and if (! condition). Also perl's
- the only language I've found where the number of "right" ways of doing
- things is comparable with the number of "wrong" ways :-)
-
- Mike
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