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On 23/01/2008, Henry Bremridge <henry.bremridge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There are a couple of programs that I am starting to use that are written in perl > (Finance::quote and beancounter) and I would dearly love to play around with them > a bit. > > HOWEVER: I have looked at a couple of online sites and still not really any closer > at achieving what I want. The best I have found so far is > http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/10/begperl1.html and there are some things that I > cannot get my head around. Before spending serious time on resolving this, does > anyone have any recommendations on the best way to learn Perl? > > (I say Perl but to be honest I have never programmed and the programmes I use are > in Perl, so Perl was my language of choice.) > > Any comments / suggestions gratefully received Learning Perl by O Reilly and Perl Cookbook, also by O Reilly. Definately the best books to learn Perl from IMHO. There is also a perl-beginners mailing list at http://perl.org somewhere. I think it's worth finding a good introduction to programming as well, even if it uses something like BASIC or Pascal. A. -- http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Hosting -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html