Opinions on the usefulness of Perldoc restarted a train of thought I had earlier.

When Niederrhein.pm had our books - meeting not to long ago, perldoc was a topic, too. All of us seemed to have had the same problem in the beginning: struggling with the doc

For most of us, English only being our second language, there was more than one problem to overcome. First of all we had to understand a kind of English that is not taught at school, and then we had to figure out how to read the doc.

When I started out, I didn't have the best of books, and I simly didn't come to the doc where it says you can search perldoc for functions by typing perldoc -f function.

This is a problem many people have experienced, so we at Niederrhein.pm wondered, if there shouldn't be something like perldoc howto containing search options and typographical conventions and other hints towards reading the doc.

What do you think?

neophyte Niederrhein.pm

In reply to perldoc howto? by neophyte

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