[Pdx-pm] learning Perl 5.10^W8^W6^W5 on Linux^WMac^WWindows
Eric Wilhelm
enobacon at gmail.com
Mon May 4 13:43:50 PDT 2009
# someone off-list wrote:
>Do you want to require Perl 5.010?
Yes. Absolutely. There are plenty of Perl 4 tutorials out there and
piles of resources for 5.005_x VMS first-timers. What we're badly
lacking are resources for new users to learn how to use new Perl. It
might be fair to have a sidebar explaining oldities, but it's not my
first priority.
I've thought about just using the 'use Modern::Perl' idiom. It's
unfortunate that this would require me to explain how to setup the CPAN
*before* anything else (because that's unfortunately tedious.) Some of
the complexity has to stand behind the curtain during the sales pitch
or people will just go "look how shiny and simple ___ is compared to
this". Anything with 3+ platforms and multiple versions is equally
complicated, but I think part of Perl's problem is that everyone seems
to want to explain the thick part first.
>" the '::' is translated to the directory seperator on your system,
>typically '/' or '\'."
>
> It's important enough to not be a parenthetical.
Hmm. And now we have a windows sidebar too. Makes me start thinking
that maybe the whole thing should be built out of javascript like a
choose-your-own-adventure story.
Thanks,
Eric
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