Learning Perl from O'Reilly is the best book for learning Perl that I have found. Its actually amusing to read, its so well written.
Then move onto Programming Perl (the bible of Perl) for everything you will ever want to know.
Then pick up Perl Best Practices for how to apply all that massive knowledge.
Then, rock on.
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Anonymous2007-01-23 2:32
Moving on to intermediate perl after reading beginning perl also does the trick. I agree with >>3, O'really perl books are amusing to read.
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Anonymous2007-01-23 2:44
just read the perl man pages. that's what i did.
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Anonymous2007-01-23 4:17
The perl man pages explain it all, but they do so in such an antipedagogic and disordered way (much to the style of perl) that you have to read them all to be able to understand anything. Perl fails sorry sirs.
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Anonymous2007-01-23 6:35
I lucked into the entire Perl Reference Library box set from O'Reilly. Unfortunately, it is no longer available.
That said, I try to avoid perl as much as possible. I do my scripting in bash or Python as I like to be able to read it two years later and know what the hell it does.
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Anonymous2007-01-23 13:51
Ok for the O'reilly's book, I will throw an eye on them. Man pages maybe irrelevant by the fact that i must throw myself in the concepts of OO programming.
>>7
I find that bash is not clearer than perl in its syntax, but python is a good language to make small scripts ? Are the performances fine ?
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Anonymous2007-01-23 14:08
>>7 That said, I try to avoid perl as much as possible. I do my scripting in bash
Choosing Python over Perl is one thing. But choosing Bash over Perl? You've got issues, man.
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Python now has an edge over Perl for performance. For most things that's probably enough.
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but unwise to try two languages at the same time just for comparison purpose. I've done it in the past for Common Lisp and OCaml and I wasted my time. My piece of advice is to try them both without the comparison part.
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Anonymous2007-01-26 9:22
>>17
I won't try them but learn them, my choice will forge itself by using them both some time, not by benchmark or other stuff like that. And maybe I won't even make a choice, after all. But between them, which one is the more convenient to assimilate OO conepts ?
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Anonymous2007-01-26 11:27
>>18
This Python user believes Ruby's object model is purer, although it seems to lack some features such as multiple inheritance, which I understand you can fix with mixins.
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Anonymous2007-01-26 17:47
>>18
If you are dealing much with Linux, you'd do well to learn both - Period.
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