[oak perl] Perlboot; "Woops! Wrong animal!"

[Sandy Santra]

Belden Lyman <blyman at iii.com> wrote:
>If you haven't come from a CS background and are trying
to teach yourself 
>about objects, you'll need some time. I'm speaking from
experience. 

Wise words, indeed.  This has been my experience...  I had
to back out of learning Java and return to Perl because
I couldn't wrap my mind around objects (yet). 

>    perlboot is a kinder, gentler introduction to object-oriente
 
>    programming.
>perlboot made things click for me. Give it a try. Work through
>the examples. Play with your own changes.

"Play with your own examples"--indeed, I was just realizing
today how much fun coding is for me.  It really is play.

Thanks for the perlboot tip.  I'm reading perlboot this
evening.  I have not studied references and packages yet,
so much of this is over my head.  But the beginning is very
instructive. 

And as far as I can tell, the Llama book doesn't address
these parts of Perl.  (You may have thought my skill level
was more advanced, since I had thought I was reading the
Camel book--until just now, when I stared at the cover and
thought, "Wait--there's no hump!")  The comfortable, humpless
animal is for beginners, natch.  Then graduates have to
wrestle a hump..but get a faster, sturdier beast in exchange.

So thanks for the perlboot tip.  It made me dig into my
IndigoPerl directory and find all sorts of reference materials.

--Sandy