Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] reading list

[Patrick Béart <patrick@WebArchitecture.com>]

At 12:26 PM -0700 8/25/99, Larry Moore said:
>"Richard K. Moore" <rkmoore@iol.ie> wrote:
>>Dear Larry,
>>
>>I certainly second Tomer's recommendation to start by learning Perl.
>>I'd merely caution that Perl takes a considerable time investment, as a
>>language and runtime environment.  The CGI part, in my humble estimate,
>>would only be about 10% of the learning curve.  Learning to use Perl & its
>>modules effectively (I haven't 'mastered' Perl and may never) took me
>>about 3 months (full time) with the help of a friend acting as tutor.
>>
>>best of luck,
>>rkm
>>http://cyberjournal.org/quay_largo/
>
>I've been working on perl for a while - somedays it falls together and some
>days it falls apart. :-) You are right about the sweat-capital involved - I
>wouldn't have attempted this job six months ago.
>

	I'll jump into this discussion by saying that although I've heard
alot of good comments about the "Llama" and "Camel" books on PERL, they
strike me as TOO "programmer-centric" for them to be of any use to me,
personally. Too many of these books assume some programming experience or
familiarity.
	Being a Mac-head, the "MacPERL: Power and Ease" is a good choice.
Probably not much good for PC people, though.
	Another saving grace is "PERL and CGI for the World Wide Web"
Visual Quickstart Guide. I LOVE these Visual Quickstart Guides, as I am a
visual learner and reading something like Randall Swartz's PERL book was
akin to trying to read a Physics book in high school! He lost me on about
page 40!   8P
	Give me some kind of diagram, anytime. Hell, when someone creates a
interactive CD-ROM PERL programming tutorial I'm THERE!   ; )



Patrick

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