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Maybe this is a matter of taste, but I think the Perl debugger might be confusing for the newbie. It has its own commands and doesn't execute programs the way they would normally run. Learning one thing after another, not all simultaneously is very important. I'd start with the most essential features and move on to the "specials" later. But as always, TMWTDI -- so check it out.

~Django
"Why don't we ever challenge the spherical earth theory?"

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Re^4: Perl What for?
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Sep 08, 2002 at 13:19 UTC
    It is quite confusing to actually try to debug with it if don't know heads from tails yet, true. The command I posted uses -e1 to supply a null source so you can just enter Perl code on the commandline though, and it'll pretty much work like an interactive interpreter then.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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