=head1 NAME
-perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 9462 $)
+perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 10144 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Someone looking for a perl for Win16 might look to Laszlo Molnar's
djgpp port in http://www.cpan.org/ports/#msdos , which comes with
-clear installation instructions. A simple installation guide for
-MS-DOS using Ilya Zakharevich's OS/2 port is available at
-http://www.cs.ruu.nl/%7Epiet/perl5dos.html
-and similarly for Windows 3.1 at http://www.cs.ruu.nl/%7Epiet/perlwin3.html .
+clear installation instructions.
=head2 I don't have a C compiler. How can I build my own Perl interpreter?
You might look around the net for a pre-built binary of Perl (or a
C compiler!) that meets your needs, though:
-For Windows, Vanilla Perl (http://vanillaperl.com/) comes with a
+For Windows, Vanilla Perl ( http://vanillaperl.com/ ) and Strawberry Perl
+( http://strawberryperl.com/ ) come with a
bundled C compiler. ActivePerl is a pre-compiled version of Perl
ready-to-use.
Intermediate Perl (the "Alpaca Book")
by Randal L. Schwartz and brian d foy, with Tom Phoenix (foreword by Damian Conway)
ISBN 0-596-10206-2 [1st edition March 2006]
- http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lrnperlorm/
+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/intermediateperl/
+
+ Mastering Perl
+ by brian d foy
+ ISBN 0-596-52724-1 [1st edition July 2007]
+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527242/
=item Task-Oriented
ISBN 0-596-00503-2 [1st edition January 2004]
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perldebugpr/
+ Pro Perl Debugging
+ by Richard Foley with Andy Lester
+ ISBN 1-59059-454-1 [1st edition July 2005]
+ http://www.apress.com/book/view/1590594541
+
=back
=head2 Which magazines have Perl content?
which maintains the web site http://www.perl.org/ as a general
advocacy site for the Perl language. It uses the domain to provide
general support services to the Perl community, including the hosting
-of mailing lists, web sites, and other services. The web site
-http://www.perl.org/ is a general advocacy site for the Perl language,
-and there are many other sub-domains for special topics, such as
+of mailing lists, web sites, and other services. There are also many
+other sub-domains for special topics like learning Perl, Perl news, jobs
+in Perl, such as:
http://learn.perl.org/
http://use.perl.org/
=head1 REVISION
-Revision: $Revision: 9462 $
+Revision: $Revision: 10144 $
-Date: $Date: 2007-04-27 08:24:33 +0200 (Fri, 27 Apr 2007) $
+Date: $Date: 2007-10-31 13:50:01 +0100 (Wed, 31 Oct 2007) $
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