Comments on: Saturday Perl Link Dump

by: Tom Galloway

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 00:58:44 +0000

Perl over Lisp? I think not. I’ll spare you my long rant on how Lisp lost the language wars of the 80s, although I’ll toss in a pointer to Richard Gabriel’s “Worse Is Better” paper which sums up the general principles (although it’s more aimed at how Unix won out)

by: Augie De Blieck Jr.

Sun, 25 Dec 2005 13:26:54 +0000

Thanks for stopping by my humble little blog, Randal! I’m in the middle of re-reading your “Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules” at the moment, preparing for a little coding on the side for fun I want to do. While occasionally I go all cross-eyed thinking about curly braces, parentheses, and anonymous references, it’s very helpful and the best way to learn this stuff I’ve ever come across.

It’s my goal in life to never have to become a Java programmer to maintain my computer programming career. ;-)

by: Randal L. Schwartz

Sun, 25 Dec 2005 05:02:53 +0000

A few more for you:

www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/columns.html - my 240+ magazine articles on Perl
learn.perl.org - great place for beginners
www.perlmonks.org - great web-based community for Perl
search.cpan.org - look for Perl modules, read docs, links to bug reports, quality reports, etc