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Re: [LUG] Learning Perl as a non-programmer

 

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 15:34 +0000, Henry Bremridge 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
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Henry
> Wed Jan 23 15:34:03 GMT 2008

I found Perl for Dummies to be a very good introduction to the language.

Alexis


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