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Hello,
I am a hell of a network guy but lacking in programming. I do know basic cli commands, but I am interested in Perl. I have the cookbook and ...
- 04-13-2007 #1Linux Engineer
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Hello,
I am a hell of a network guy but lacking in programming. I do know basic cli commands, but I am interested in Perl. I have the cookbook and a couple of other oreily books, but I can't seem to get it. Does anybody have a different way I can go about learning this other than an oreily book? Maybe a Published Perl magazine or something entirely different?Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
-- Linus Torvalds
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I don't really care for O'Reilly books when it comes to actually learning something for the first time. They're good for reference after the fact, but not as a first exposure IMO.
I prefer books by WROX, such as WROX Beginning Perl (ignore the dork on the front cover). They just seem to speak more in English to me. You might give it a look the next time you're in a book store.Registered Linux user #270181
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First you also might look here
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http://www.linuxforums.org/programming/
Regards
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great ideas thanks for the tips. I will start on both of those suggestions soon.
Mike
BTW it has been a long time TechieMoe. I have been busy for the last year we must catch up soon.
Still using SuSE?Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
-- Linus Torvalds
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Not since 10.1. These days I'm mostly on OS X on my laptop, with occasional jaunts into Ubuntu.
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perl is old, and unwieldy. It's possible for a 15 line perl script to spin your head until it hurts and falls off. Python is the future, may perl R.I.P lol
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Originally Posted by techieMoe
Sounds exactly like me. I am responding on my powerbook and my other lappy is a really cheap gateway running ubuntu. I am still running centos for my servers and I have a dev/test box that is centos and I am going to build another dev/test that will be slackware for the purpose of recompiling kernels.
Rock on TechieMoe.Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
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