Perl books

Pandora-Box · Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 10:10 pm

Can someone suggest me some books in Perl for a newbie?

Thanks

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 10:16 pm

why not google Yourself ???

perl for beginners returned 3.200.000 hits ( perl & for & beginners )

[b"]perl for beginners"[/b] note the quotes to search for the exact wording returned 38.400 hits

pick any one of them...
for example
www.perl.org/learn.html
or
www.perl.com/pub/2000/10/begperl1.html
or
www.activestate.com

Ed Goodman · Active Member Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Posts: 556 Location: USA

Do you want a book? Or an online resource?

Are you actually wanting to learn how to leverage the language and write good, new code? Or have you have a library full of scripts dumped on you?

As fa as I'm concerned, Perl was written by a sadist! Yes, it works great, but any language where:
h*0?>)($%****>>%$#@!@

Is a valid line of code, and not a mistake my modem made, is a sadistic language!

Robert Sample · Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 11:12 pm

I have to agree with Ed. Perl is a good 4th or 5th computer language to learn, but heaven help the poor person learning it as their first computer language! I use Perl quite a bit, even though it is not as fast to code up as SAS, but I do NOT try to get fancy with Perl! For example, the default Perl variable name rules are (basically):
- variable names can be up to 255 characters
- variables are typed based on the first character -- $ for scalar, @ for array, % for hashes
- variables are defined upon first reference
- variable names are case sensitive (these two rules mean heaven help you if you're a bad typist)
- Perl automatically converts variables between numbers and strings as needed

I always make sure my Perl code has

Pandora-Box · Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 11:22 pm

Enrico apologies

I did google and found that site myself

Since I would be away from system I was looking for books

I am looking for a job change so why learning new things to me in hope to get a job

Frankly at this state of mind I dont know what is better

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 1:26 am

Hi Pandora,

At the risk of overstepping bounds, i suggest you search for positions that need what you are already good at.

Learning new things is always to one's advantage. I would not consider something i was just learning to influence an interview.

Pandora-Box · Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 9:59 am

To be frank I am good at Mainframes

Though oppurtunities are slim

So why I was trying out things outside of my skillset

Am not so experinced as experts but not regarded as a candidate to code that is the sad part

Nic Clouston · Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 5:41 pm

I usualy install Perl on my usable PCs. Same with Rexx. But I use Rexx more often than Perl for writing stuff to run under windoze.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 5:47 pm

Pandora-Box · Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 6:06 pm

Thanks all for your valuable inputs

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 7:25 pm

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 7:58 pm

I would suggest to switch to ooRexx

Nic Clouston · Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 10:29 pm

It depends on which interpreter is to the fore - i.e. I do not know as I basically use vanilla Rexx.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 10:40 pm

no need with ooRexx to use the object garbage
You can write everything in classical rexx
with the advantage of being able to use if necessary the oorexx constructs
some of them are pretty powerful and not even too much OO