I very much agree to this post. I also started a few months ago with Learning Perl. It reads as a good book, has loth of humour and reading it is a pleasure. Now I have an interrest in GUIs and came across "Mastering Perl TK". Just read the book and try to make some small programs without using the book to copy stuff and you will get started in no time. If you ever get stuck (like i today) you can always ask the Monks for advice (be sure to use strict and use warnings so your code is not buggy thats the lesson i learned today to). Good luck ! Ivo.

In reply to Re^2: How to get going with perl? by ivo_ac
in thread How to get going with perl? by jaggoraj

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