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

 

On Jan 24, 2008 9:09 PM, Alexis <Alexis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.
>


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