tony summerfelt wrote to Bo Simonsen about ''Beginners'':

 BS>> Do any of you know some good PERL beginners howto, I know there is
 BS>> alot out there, but which of them is good?

 ts> when if first learned perl back in '95 i used a book called 'learn
 ts> perl in 30 days' (there were a bunch of 'learn  in 30
 ts> days' books.) 

Aha. Maybe there should be a FAQ for this echo, but I see the interest
isn't that big. :/

 ts> it didn't really teach a lot of perl5, mostly perl4.

Is there a big difference?

 ts> and at the time activestate was called 'hip communications'. their
 ts> version of perl was a lot closer to the 'gsar' version of perl at
 ts> the time... 

Hmm..?

 ts> there's also a few web pages you can hunt down. once is 'perl in 10
 ts> minutes' and another is 'perl in 20 pages' . something along those
 ts> lines... 

Aha, but you don't have a good reference?

 ts> i believe that both assume you already know how to program  in
 ts> something like C, but they'll give you a pretty quick start up...

Yes I figured there aren't far between perl and c.

 ts> perl takes about 10 minutes to learn...the perl magic, and regex's
 ts> take a bit longer...i got lucky, i clicked in to the perl magic
 ts> pretty much right away... 

regex is the cool thing about perl, it's seems like a big mistery to a
person which is unfamilear with regex.

Bo

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