macOS Perl-where to start!

[gusious]

Hello!!!

Well, i'm very very interested to learn Perl. But where should i start from?

Can you guide me?

Also, i saw that i have 5.8.8 version of Perl. Is it necessary to upgrade to 5.10 which is the current version? If yes can you help me with that too?

Thanks! I really appreciate it!

 

[iShater]

Perl.com

And some of the PERL books (O'Reilly), like the Learning Perl (Llama), and Programming in PERL (Camel) books.

And like any other language, practice and code in it.

 

[gusious]

Thanks. Do you think that i should install the new version of Perl?

 

[robbieduncan]

Thanks. Do you think that i should install the new version of Perl?

No, the differences are so minor you won't notice them.

 

[detz]

I'll start you off, ALWAYS include these two lines at the top of your script.!

use strict;
use warnings;

 

[ChrisA]

Hello!!!

Well, i'm very very interested to learn Perl. But where should i start from?

Absolutely, without question the answer is
"Learning Perl" by Schwartz & Christiansen published by O'Reilly and Assoc.

After that yu can just get the reference material. "Programming Perl" from the same source but really most of us, after reading "Learning Perl" are good just with the on-line documentation. the on-line docs that are installed on your computer are very good and complete and always available. "Programming Perl" is NOT a beginner book put a very good reference