February 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1184 pages
37h 17m
English
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Getting Help
Perl people are some of the most helpful people around, and even the people who don’t like Perl tend to realize that. We think Perl’s roots in so many different kinds of languages attract the sort of people who like different kinds of languages rather than just the one they know. Perhaps they find a little good in everything.
If you need to find help, there are many people waiting to help you in almost any Internet-type discussion thingy that exists. Here are several notable ones:
- http://perldoc.perl.org
All of the Perl documentation is online, so you never have to live without it―despite what your platform and packaging system think. Yes, some vendors give you perl with no manuals.
- Learn Perl
This website is your starting point for many of the beginner resources available, including many that we list here.
- Perl beginners mailing list
Casey West started this mailing list as a safe place for absolute beginners to ask the most basic questions in a safe environment. Other fora may be much more, well, unregulated, and a bit more discouraging for the new Perl programmer.
- Perlmonks
Perlmonks is a web bulletin board dedicated to Perl. It’s not specifically a help desk, but if you’ve done your homework and ask a good question, you’re likely to get top-notch help very quickly. You might want to read “brian’s Guide to Solving Any Perl Problem” first.[226]
- Stackoverflow
Stackoverflow is a question-and-answer site for general programming. Even though it is not dedicated to Perl, there ...
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