in reply to What should you know before you start to learn Perl?
- First make it Readable, then make it Correct. Pretty comes last.
- Try It And See.
- Keep a temp.pl file open.
- Use prints everywhere to see what happens.
- Be willing to learn independently.
- Only you can do the learning for you. (No pain no gain)
- The amount of time you spend pondering the question and its presentation needs to be greater than or equal to the amount of time you want others to spend answering it.
- If you can't organize the question clearly, then you likely have problems with the problem definition. Recurse.
- Be thankful but not obsequious for help.