Re: [MacPerl] RE:[Macperl]Introduction

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 23.49 -0400 1999.07.04, madame philosophe wrote:
>>Suggestion #1: Do get "MacPerl, Power and Ease".
>
>I've been reading the online version. It's a good read. And covers a lot
>in a short amount of time!
>
>I may actually buy it this weekend.


>Modules...modules are the most elusive things to me. I understand that
>modules are like libraries of packages. I just don't understand how they
>get installed with "makefile.pl"

In MacPerl, they don't (for most users).  Read the section in the book
(online or after you buy it :) on modules, and the subsection on installing
modules.  I am going to put some links to installing info on my MacPerl
page soon.  There are two basic ways to do it: one is to follow the
instructions in the book, the other is to use the cpan-mac distribution I
have on my site, using either the CPAN shell or the installme droplet.


>I also recognize that people are recommending I don't go OO so fast, but
>I guess my premise is that if I learn the OO aspects(which I've wanted
>to understand even before wanting to learn Perl) then going "procedural"
>will be easy. Going from procedural to OO, I hear can be difficult to
>get your head around.

I would recommend that for now you just learn Perl without OO, and then in
August when Manning releases Damian Conway's Perl OO book, you read that.

And as was already said, CGI.pm can be done with simple functions rather
than OO.  The function way is easier, faster (in writing AND execution) and
sufficient for most CGI programs that you would write.

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