FW: [Tallahassee-pm] By way of introduction...

[Tillman, James]

Here's something I should have pointed out.  The pm.org mailing lists are a
bit confusing in that you have to do a "Reply to All" to get the mail to go
the list instead of the individual.  You can delete the invididual from the
TO: list once you've done that.  I'm constantly forgetting this myself (as
the message below reveals), but it gives you a little more flexibility in
responding, so it's worth the pain of learning to do it.

jpt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tillman, James 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 9:03 AM
> To: 'Rebekah Landbeck'
> Subject: RE: [Tallahassee-pm] By way of introduction...
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rebekah Landbeck [mailto:rlandbeck at uniteddatatronics.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 8:48 AM
> > To: Tillman, James
> > Subject: RE: [Tallahassee-pm] By way of introduction...
> > 
> > 
> > >I'm the group leader (a dubious honor, at best).
> > 
> > Is it the honor that's dubious, or the leader-ness?
> 
> Hmmm.  Both.  ;-)
>  
> > >There's lots of differences between Perl and PHP, sure, 
> but a lot of
> > >similarities, too.
> > 
> > Yeah.  I'm slogging through the pod on perldoc.com to get a 
> > better handle 
> > on some general concepts.  I've read about references before 
> > in PHP and C++ 
> > (which I haven't worked with enough to learn, just read a few 
> > tutorials and 
> > planned to) but never used them, and Perl apparently uses 
> > them quite a 
> > lot.  Plus there's terminology... like PHP's associative 
> > arrays vs. Perl's 
> > hashes.
> 
> The Perl community actually refers to them as associative 
> arrays, at times, which can make things confusing.  I think 
> Perl suffers from a bit of computer science overload at 
> times, but you can usually cut through it if you maintain a 
> strong practical point of view.
> 
> Perl does make use of references quite a bit, and objects, as 
> well, which are really just references with extra behaviors 
> attached to them.  I learned Perl from the POD, but let me 
> tell you, it takes a particularly stubborn person to do that. 
>  I was a coding newbie at the time, and I realized only later 
> that I could have saved myself a handful of hair by just 
> biting the bullet and paying for a good book.  You'll be MUCH 
> better off following Scott Keller's advice and getting hold 
> of some O'Reilly books on Perl (Wrox is another good 
> publishing house for Perl).  If you use O'Reilly's free trial 
> period for their Safari service, you can explore lots of good 
> Perl books and find one that matches your style.
>  
> > Oh, I will, I will... but I promise they won't be RTFM 
> material.  :o)
> 
> Appreciated.  But occasionally, it helps to have someone 
> point out the right FM  ;-)  So don't hold back on that account.
> 
> jpt
>