[oak perl] Can anyone recommend a good web site to learn perl?

[Joe Brenner]

David Fetter <david at fetter.org> wrote:
> Dan Dascalescu wrote:
> > David Fetter <david at fetter.org> wrote:
> > > Michael wrote:

> > > > I have been programming in perl for a few years, but am always
> > > > looking to expland my experience.  Has anyone come across a good
> > > > site?

> > > Any of Randal Schwartz's books from O'Reilly should do.  Ask before
> > > buying any other O'Reilly titles, as the quality varies widely.
> >
> > In my opinion, the best web site to learn Perl that I know of, is
> > http://www.sthomas.net/oldpages/roberts-perl-tutorial.htm
>
> After a quick browse through that one, I just plain can't agree.  The
> idioms used in there are basically from perl4, and a lot of the
> recommendations, in my humble opinion, are just plain wrong.

Um... I can't say it looks quite that bad to me, though there are things
I might complain about (it delays talking about "use strict;" for too
long, for example).

I would suggest starting here:

  http://perldoc.perl.org/perlintro.html

(which is the same content as "man perlintro" on a unix box).