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A review by dodecaphonic
Learning Perl by Tom Phoenix, Randal L. Schwartz, Larry Wall, Brian D. Foy
4.0
This book kickstarted my software development career. I was 15 and had tried learning C for a little over a year, trying to fit into a group of friends who were writing window managers for fun. I couldn't really wrap my head around it at the time, with all the ceremony about pointers and memory allocation. I wanted to accomplish things, and the gaps in my knowledge made everything frustrating.
With Learning Perl, within a few hours I had a little program reading inputs and writing files. I was hooked: finally thought could be made into programs. It made me proud of myself, and that sense of accomplishment is still a main driving force to this day. I don't write Perl any more, but it was my first programming friend. This book made it so.
With Learning Perl, within a few hours I had a little program reading inputs and writing files. I was hooked: finally thought could be made into programs. It made me proud of myself, and that sense of accomplishment is still a main driving force to this day. I don't write Perl any more, but it was my first programming friend. This book made it so.