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Article #25Re: PERL
From: Alan Ford
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:00
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On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 10:45:57 GMT, Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com> wrote:
>On 15 Dec 1999 18:49:48 GMT, Alan Ford <alan@whirlnet.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>I haven't read Learning Perl, only Programming Perl. And I have to say that
>>Programming Perl is almost essential if you want to get anywhere with it.
>>My heavily thumbed copy is testimony to that!
>
>Having a copy myself, I'm not so sure. Once I twigged perldoc, and the
>way the eletronic manual is organized, I started using that instead.
>
>If I'm programing perl, I've got a computer with perldoc. I may not
>have Programming Perl.
>
>Of course, I don't mind eletronic docs for reference, but others may.
Well some people seem to prefer electronic docs, but most (by no means all,
but most) people that I've talked to about this sort of thing do prefer
printed docs.
I certainly do, as I like to keep my screen completely with the code, and
be able to simultaneously type as I am reading bits of info from the book
that's sitting open next to the PC on the desk here.
But this is verging off-topic, so FU poster.
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