I’d agree with the author that his purpose wasn’t strictly to write a “welcome newbie” tutorial. I thought it was interesting nevertheless, as a sampling of things in perl.
I’ve always found perldoc hard to use. It is filled with details I don’t care about, the order things are explained is unnatural to me, plus little notes on things like the inner workings of VMS pop up from time to time. To pick one example, subroutine prototypes. I find the explanation here considerably simpler to understand than the official perlsub explanation, and it’s introduced much sooner, not buried after local.
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I’d agree with the author that his purpose wasn’t strictly to write a “welcome newbie” tutorial. I thought it was interesting nevertheless, as a sampling of things in perl.
I’ve always found perldoc hard to use. It is filled with details I don’t care about, the order things are explained is unnatural to me, plus little notes on things like the inner workings of VMS pop up from time to time. To pick one example, subroutine prototypes. I find the explanation here considerably simpler to understand than the official perlsub explanation, and it’s introduced much sooner, not buried after local.