The intro Perl course book was bad before, and it was bad after. Well, at least the "after" book could call itself a book, it actually had some prose in it. But both books still had the typical SUN style of education. "Day1: Perl also has operators. Here are all the operators."

I've advised my students to take a black marker and mark complete chapters black. (Like the utter bullshit they managed to write about 'local' - but that's a general peeve of mine, why do introduction books teach 'local' in the same breath as 'my' - and why do they have the tendency to delay introducing 'my' until they start talking about subs? That the PODs do so doesn't mean it's appropriate to copy).

Abigail

In reply to Re: (Off topic) Retraining on Solaris by Abigail-II
in thread (OT) Retraining on Solaris by inman

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