Teach me Perl niggas

2015-08-28 at 9:10 PM UTC

#1

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

So I have a project I want to work on but it's source is in Perl. I have some python experience but no functional knowledge of Perl. Any yall niggas worked with or know much about this language? Any resources, write up and such would be much appreciated.

2015-08-28 at 11:04 PM UTC

#2

Sophie Pedophile Tech Support

I have no experience with perl myself, but the official site seems informative enough.

http://learn.perl.org/
https://www.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/

2015-08-28 at 11:14 PM UTC

#3

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

Thats where I started off. This one helped quite a bit as well:
http://qntm.org/files/perl/perl.html

2015-08-29 at 12:53 AM UTC

#4

Sophie Pedophile Tech Support

Thats where I started off. This one helped quite a bit as well:
http://qntm.org/files/perl/perl.html

Cool, anything specefic you're looking to write?

2015-08-29 at 1:03 AM UTC

#5

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

Yeah the project I am working on is to modify a version of the text board software Kareha. What I want to do is add subforums and some other features. Im not sure how big a project it will be or if I am in over my head but it seems simple enough in theory.

I may actually end up rewriting the base of the thing in python and expanding it to fit my needs. Not sure yet as I am still in the early stages of it.

site: http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/web/wakaba_kareha
docs: http://wakaba.c3.cx/docs/docs.html

2015-08-29 at 1:36 AM UTC

#6

Lanny Bird of Courage

So the canonical resource is "the camel book", or Programming Perl by Wall himself. That's where most crusty old perl hackers learned it. I can't really speak to how good it is, I've never read it. O'Reilly books tend to be dense and not particularly didactic but this might be an exception. I learned the language from this thing: http://www.cbkihong.com/download/perltut.pdf which is pretty straight forward, I liked it at least.

Perlmonks is always a good resource if you want to broaden your mind a bit, and they have tutorials, but honestly just the community there is, in my opinion, one of the real strengths of the language.

If you have questions about a particular piece of code feel free to post them. I can also give you the handful of folklore around the language, but if you're learning it for a specific project that probably wouldn't mean much.

2024-04-14 at 2:59 PM UTC

#7