Re: [MacPerl] A basic question.

[PwrSurge <tjudd@pacifier.com>]

At 4:26 PM -0500 1/2/99, Eric Mings wrote:
>I recently bought the "Mac Perl Power and Ease" book in an attempt to
>begin learning perl. I find the book to be helpful as a general
>introduction, but I have not yet been able to find an example  that would
>help me solve an immediate problem. Having been subscribed to this list
>for a few days it is apparent that the topics are quite beyond a "novice"
>level. So.. I have two questions. First does anyone have a recommedation
>for resources (e.g. other books or other mailing lists) for novices to
>help get up to speed? Second can anyone tell me where to find a basic
>example script that opens a text file, finds and  replaces some text, and
>saves a copy under another name? Thanks.

I can safly say that the "Learning Perl" book has been keeping me up to
speed since I was interested in perl.  That teaches you the basics, some
code..  and most importantly..  WHY things happen, and HOW things happen in
PERL.  2nd suggestion would be "Programming Perl" - this book teaches and
shows you how to put commands together to accomplish certain tasks.  As
with books, and how they are written (one way, they won't change what is
written each time you read it), you can only get *SO* far with a book.  use
these books as a launchpad to get y ourself airborne, so to speak.  I
program CGI's, I work on PERL, I am now expanding my programming abilities
to Pascal, C/C++, JavaScript - all because I got PERL down.  If I could get
one language down, I can get more down too.  :)

>Regards,
>
>Eric Mings Ph.D.
>
>
>***** Want to unsubscribe from this list?
>***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch

--Tim

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"If the opposite of 'pro' is 'con' ...
    does that mean the opposite of 'progress' is 'congress'??"  -- Unknown
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------



***** Want to unsubscribe from this list?
***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch