i choose perl ^

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Re: i choose perl ^_^ by Joost (Canon) on Dec 03, 2005 at 03:59 UTC
Good choice! You might want to take a look at how (not) to ask a question. It will help you get better answers and advice here. Anyway, I recommend the following books: Learning Perl and Programming Perl Also, perl has some excellent documention. As for file downloads, I'm not sure what you mean exactly, but the CGI.pm documentation is probably useful. edit (a day later): Zaxo and mulander posted some very good comments. Take a good look at their comments. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re: i choose perl ^_^ by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Dec 03, 2005 at 04:02 UTC
The LWP module is convenient to use and widely available. Its `get` function will download files for you. You should take the time to learn some Perl fundamentals first, though. You don't say what your experience is, but `perldoc perlsyn` defines how to talk perl for people with some experience. Brother merlyn's books are a gentler introduction. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply]
Re: i choose perl ^_^ by sub_chick (Hermit) on Dec 03, 2005 at 05:58 UTC
And coming from someone who has just started the best thing to do is start coding as soon as you learn some new information even if you don't think you're ready just work out the errors as you go and pay close attention to your syntax...I also recommend checking out a more slow-paced (but not to be used as a reference) book : SAMS Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days. "Es gibt mehr zu Leben als Bücher, kennen Sie. Aber nicht viel mehr " -(Der Smiths)	[reply]
Re: i choose perl ^_^ by mulander (Monk) on Dec 03, 2005 at 12:58 UTC
For starters this book is really great, and it's free for download.	[reply]
Re: i choose perl ^_^ by kulls (Hermit) on Dec 03, 2005 at 08:16 UTC
Boss, I recommand only this. you can get practicals here, rather bookworming. -kuls	[reply]
Re: i choose perl ^_^ by doctor_moron (Scribe) on Dec 03, 2005 at 11:29 UTC
Hi, i just want to share with you I started Perl with a book called 'Perl for Dummies', 2nd Edition, by Paul Hoffman, i learn this book by my self, after that i took private course from local guru. Then my tutor gave me a book called 'Unix Programming - Learning Perl', 2nd Edition, by Randal L Schwartz and Tom Christiansen. Well, i need more books, so i get 'Unix Programming - Programming Perl', by Larry Wall and Randall L. Schwartz, and because i like Network Programming, i bought a book called 'Network Programming with Perl', by Lincoln D. Stein. And one more thing, This Tutorials is very helpfull, easy to understand, in fact, now i spent more time in Tutorials rather than else.	[reply]
Re: i choose perl ^_^ by Perl Mouse (Chaplain) on Dec 05, 2005 at 14:29 UTC
I'd start with: `vi download` [download] and take it from there. `Perl --((8:>*`	[reply] [d/l]