On the Decline of Perl – external factors

Re:On the Decline of Perl – external factors by andi999 on Thursday April 01, 2021 @07:23AM (#26659036)

To me it was the documentation. Whenever I tried to get into it, I only came across books/tutorials(I dont remember) which start with, oh pearl, here are regular expressions. And then a very very unstructured heuristical explanation of regular expressions. Usually gave up at that point.

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Re:On the Decline of Perl – external factors by Tepix on Thursday April 01, 2021 @08:32AM (#26659628)

Perl's documentation is/was fantastic. On top of it there were some of the best books that covered it.

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Re:On the Decline of Perl – external factors by gerikson on Thursday April 01, 2021 @07:56AM (#26659321)

The official Perl documentation is quite good, in my humble opinion.

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Re:On the Decline of Perl – external factors by ptspts on Thursday April 01, 2021 @03:13PM (#26664806)

I've learnt Perl from the man pages. They are interesting and insightful.

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