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- From: lemson@fnbc.com (David Lemson)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: Re: getting started
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.193938.5504@fnbc.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 19:39:38 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?
-
- I always find it helps to have someone telling me 'I want that program
- written today or you're fired!'
-
- No, seriously, think of something you want to do and write a Perl program
- to do it... start out writing an automated FTP program or something fairly
- simple like that. (just give commands to the ftp program read in from a
- file or something) The thing about Perl is that you can write a really
- simple program in no time, and add things to it (like CURSES calls!) as
- you go.
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