On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 08:39:01PM -0500, Tim Ayers wrote: > I agree with others that 'Learning Perl' is the best book for people > with little programming experiencing. Be certain to get the second > edition that has been updated to Perl 5 (which is VERY different from > Perl 4 that the first edition was based on.)
Well, the book only covers the basic stuff which really hasn't changed much. I have the Llama 1st edition and have noticed very few changes in actually using Perl5 (mostly chop versus chomp). > #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w #!/usr/bin/perl -w would be better on Debian. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.
