Re: [MacPerl] Docs on extensions to MacPerl....

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

Terje Bless <link@tss.no> writes:
>I think one of the greatest problems with MacPerl in general, is a lack of
>documentation. What is provided is sufficently obscure that I've not even
>managed to get to the "hello world" point yet.
>Adittedly I only tried in perl4 and before I actually had learned much perl
>in general, but even the state of the docs in the current release is bad.

The original idea behind MacPerl documentation was that it is meant for people
who already know Perl from books or other platforms, and I think that the 5.1.0
documentation is pretty good for those people.

There have been a few tutorial efforts. Janis Greenberg's tutorial is very good
for the Hello Worldish aspects; unfortunately we never got around to getting a
machine readable copy of it ready for inclusion in the distribution.

Matthias

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