Tip #1: Avoid 'Learning Perl' by O'Reilly!
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Hope you haven't purchased _Perl_Buy_Example. It can be downloaded for free from http://www.rcs.ru:8102/useful/Perl5/noframes.htm
If you are into all-inclusive tomes then be sure to scope out _Perl5_Complete_ published by McGraw-Hill ( their the ones that like to put corporate ads into the textbooks of elementary school children and then blame it on the companies that purchased the space... but, what the heck, no-corporate-body is perfect ). Once you really dig into Perl you may well change you mind about O'Reilly's Perl books.
As all files are potential bases for data, and the sheer volume of ASCII text files vastly overwhelms any amount of data accessed via the database apps VB5 optimally targets, I posit, Perl Master-of-Strings that it is, with a Perl/Tk GUI exudes a more complete and universal RADness than VB5. Want to race IDE's now? puurrrrrrr...
Concise PerlTk Instructional Book
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Just read the book in question and loved it.
Having spent the last year with MS development tools such as MFC before learning the PerlTk module available from ActiveState I was enthralled with Perl's syntactic and stylistic flexibility, plus, the blazing speed I can design/build complex event driven GUIs without depending on brittle proprietary Wizard built hocus-pocus code.
I'm not surprised most users/consumers don't seem to respond well to menu driven console programs. PerlTk is a wonderful way to enhance your sysadmin scripts as well, and escape from those convoluted menus and argument lists. All this while you write code that can run across multiple platforms with little or no tweaking. What's not to like?
Nancy Walsh's book _Learning_Perl/Tk_ is supporting evidence for my theory that Perl programmers write better books.
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Hope you haven't purchased _Perl_Buy_Example. It can be downloaded for free from http://www.rcs.ru:8102/useful/Perl5/noframes.htm
... but, what the heck, no-corporate-body is perfect ). Once you really dig into Perl you may well change you mind about O'Reilly's Perl books.
If you are into all-inclusive tomes then be sure to scope out _Perl5_Complete_ published by McGraw-Hill ( their the ones that like to put corporate ads into the textbooks of elementary school children and then blame it on the companies that purchased the space
As all files are potential bases for data, and the sheer volume of ASCII text files vastly overwhelms any amount of data accessed via the database apps VB5 optimally targets, I posit, Perl Master-of-Strings that it is, with a Perl/Tk GUI exudes a more complete and universal RADness than VB5. Want to race IDE's now? puurrrrrrr...
Just read the book in question and loved it.
Having spent the last year with MS development tools such as MFC before learning the PerlTk module available from ActiveState I was enthralled with Perl's syntactic and stylistic flexibility, plus, the blazing speed I can design/build complex event driven GUIs without depending on brittle proprietary Wizard built hocus-pocus code.
I'm not surprised most users/consumers don't seem to respond well to menu driven console programs. PerlTk is a wonderful way to enhance your sysadmin scripts as well, and escape from those convoluted menus and argument lists. All this while you write code that can run across multiple platforms with little or no tweaking. What's not to like?
Nancy Walsh's book _Learning_Perl/Tk_ is supporting evidence for my theory that Perl programmers write better books.