in reply to Enhancing Debian Reference

In context, the Perl section you linked to seems OK, as that chapter is devoted to the shortest-possible synopsis of the various packaged languages. It implicitly refers to cpan with the "how to install modules" line, and refers you to perl(1) and the Camel - pretty fair advice in my book. To attempt anything else would take a whole chapter by itself.

The BASH tutorial link is part of the LDP, which also seems to be avoiding any major language tutorials (the PHP-HOWTO has now been replaced with a link to php.net). I think as there's so much information out there already for anyone who decides they want to learn Perl, adding Yet Another Perl Tutorial is probably a bit superflous. Maybe, as you say, a couple of extra links (perl.org etc.) and adding the Llama to the book list is all that's needed.

Cheers, Ben.

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Re: Re: Enhancing Debian Refernce
by maksl (Pilgrim) on Jun 23, 2003 at 12:00 UTC
    thx for naming the sources and your pointer to the Llama && perl.org, I' ll wait for a few other comments and will contact afterwards the mantainer ..
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Re: Re: Enhancing Debian Reference
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 24, 2003 at 04:29 UTC

    I'd be careful about focusing on non-free documentation. There are many of freely available resources (including complete books) out there that would be more inline with Debian.

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      Could you please name them? (will try to google for it, but never used one.)
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