From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 6 8:57:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from prime.xfactor.no (prime.xfactor.no [193.216.236.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1337214C8D for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 08:57:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from needle@prime.xfactor.no) Received: (qmail 10069 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Jul 1999 16:02:07 -0000 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 18:02:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Needle To: Gary Kline Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommendations for a perl book? In-Reply-To: <199907060419.VAA26691@athena.tera.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Gary Kline wrote: > > The Webster's dictionary port is done, first pass. However it > was originally written ad hoc and needs an overhaul. I want to > rewrite parts or all in perl and would like the lists' recommendations > on a perl book. Comprehensive and for beginners! > Personally I've been quite happy with "teach yourself Perl 5 in 21 days" It contains lots of examples on how the different functions etc. are used, and so it is easy to experiment on your own. That and the perl man pages has answered most of my questions. -- Jo B. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message