Re:Ask YC: What is the best way to learn Perl?
by prepositionjoe on Monday April 07, 2008 @07:39PM
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benreeseman somehow missed the bit which said "language wars aside"!
If you're learning Perl for web development, after you've got through the Camel book and the basics, you would go to PerlMonks, as many have said, and I'd say the main task before you is to get to know the various templating systems.
There's a progression of using perl for HTML and it goes like this:
1) hundreds of annoying print() statements
2) fewer print() statements because you've discovered HEREDOCS, but still annoying
3) using a templating module
and in my case it was 3 a) using a templating module badly then 3 b) using a templating module properly.
So check out the options like HTML::Template, Mason, Template::Toolkit, and so on to see what they do.
If you're learning Perl for web development, after you've got through the Camel book and the basics, you would go to PerlMonks, as many have said, and I'd say the main task before you is to get to know the various templating systems.
There's a progression of using perl for HTML and it goes like this:
1) hundreds of annoying print() statements
2) fewer print() statements because you've discovered HEREDOCS, but still annoying
3) using a templating module
and in my case it was 3 a) using a templating module badly then 3 b) using a templating module properly.
So check out the options like HTML::Template, Mason, Template::Toolkit, and so on to see what they do.