Re: tlug: Perl 5 kickstart

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Karl-Max Wagner wrote:

> > Does anyone know offhand a quick-and-dirty guide to Perl 5? I have
> > some work that needs to be done with it, but haven't done any actual
> > scripting myself (yet...). I don't have scads of time to read a lot
> > of manuals, just hoping to get some basics reasonably quickly for
> > now. Thanks!
> Perl 5 and Perl 4 are pretty much alike. In fact, Perl 5 has
> simply extensions to Perl 4.

BEWARE - Perl5 is also much stricter about syntax.  Many perl4 programs
will not run under perl5 because of things like having @ that isn't
backslashified (any @ inside a string must be backslashified in perl5, not
so in perl4).

> 
> There are O'Reilly books on Perl programming. However they are
> somewhat chaotic and contain a number of errors and thus are not
> exactly easy for a beginner.

If you know C, the O'Reilly camel book is all you need to learn perl.  At
least, that's how i learned perl.  Make sure you get the blue camel book
and not the pink one, though (I don't thnk you can get the pink one
anymore, actually... that was the one made in the days of perl4).

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