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Topic ID: 92
Message ID: 24
#24, RE: Standard language?
Posted by Astynax on Sep-01-01 at 07:34 PM
In response to message #12
>As for Perl...
>Random Usenet Poster: "That's not encrypted. That's in Perl."
>Larry Wall: "You just contradicted yourself."
>

This broke me good...

>I like Perl. I intend to learn Perl. But it's not exactly the
>easiest language to figure out just by looking at code.
>

O'Reilly books are your friends.

..but seriously, thus far, I haven't found it TOO difficult to pick it up, but it helps immensely to have some sort of project to do, just to be sure you've got the right idea after reading a book and some code <seems to me Perl and English actually have quite a lot in common, in terms of 'gee, that OUGHT to work that way' items>

-={(Astynax)}=-
"JAPH"