X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperlfaq2.pod;h=f1781015d630011bd7201e31782d5bf5f89bc4b1;hb=83272a45226e83bd136d713158e9b44ace2dbc8d;hp=c1c41d74b050aaf32dae7ee517a5e448e451c21d;hpb=ae6d88cbb17fc910018b10ed9d061e281ec1556c;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perlfaq2.pod b/pod/perlfaq2.pod index c1c41d7..f178101 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq2.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq2.pod @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ =head1 NAME -perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.32 $, $Date: 1999/10/14 18:46:09 $) +perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.13 $, $Date: 2002/04/26 16:56:35 $) =head1 DESCRIPTION @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ third-party modules and extensions, designed for everything from commercial database interfaces to keyboard/screen control to web walking and CGI scripts. The master web site for CPAN is http://www.cpan.org/ and there is the CPAN Multiplexer at -http://www.perl.com/CPAN/CPAN.html which will choose a mirror near you +http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html which will choose a mirror near you via DNS. See http://www.perl.com/CPAN (without a slash at the end) for how this process works. Also, http://mirror.cpan.org/ has a nice interface to the http://www.cpan.org/MIRRORED.BY @@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ miscellaneous modules. See http://www.cpan.org/modules/00modlist.long.html or http://search.cpan.org/ for a more complete list of modules by category. +CPAN is not affiliated with O'Reilly and Associates. =head2 Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl? @@ -182,9 +183,17 @@ following groups: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi Writing CGI scripts for the Web. -There is also Usenet gateway to the mailing list used by the crack -Perl development team (perl5-porters) at -news://news.perl.com/perl.porters-gw/ . +There is also a Usenet gateway to Perl mailing lists sponsored by perl.org at +nntp://nntp.perl.org , a web interface to the same lists at +http://nntp.perl.org/group/ and these lists are also available under the +C hierarchy at http://groups.google.com . Other groups are listed at +http://lists.perl.org/ ( also known as http://lists.cpan.org/ ). + +A nice place to ask questions is the PerlMonks site, http://www.perlmonks.org/ + +Note that none of the above are supposed to write your code for you: +asking questions about particular problems or general advice is fine, +but asking someone to write your code for free is not very cool. =head2 Where should I post source code? @@ -192,12 +201,12 @@ You should post source code to whichever group is most appropriate, but feel free to cross-post to comp.lang.perl.misc. If you want to cross-post to alt.sources, please make sure it follows their posting standards, including setting the Followup-To header line to NOT include alt.sources; -see their FAQ (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/alt-sources-intro/) for details. +see their FAQ ( http://www.faqs.org/faqs/alt-sources-intro/ ) for details. If you're just looking for software, first use Google -(http://www.google.com), Deja (http://www.deja.com), and -CPAN Search (http://search.cpan.org). This is faster and more -productive than just posting a request. +( http://www.google.com ), Google's usenet search interface +( http://groups.google.com ), and CPAN Search ( http://search.cpan.org ). +This is faster and more productive than just posting a request. =head2 Perl Books @@ -253,8 +262,8 @@ If you are more at home in Windows the following is available ISBN 1-56592-324-3 [1st edition August 1997] http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperlwin/ -Addison-Wesley (http://www.awlonline.com/) and Manning -(http://www.manning.com/) are also publishers of some fine Perl books +Addison-Wesley ( http://www.awlonline.com/ ) and Manning +( http://www.manning.com/ ) are also publishers of some fine Perl books such as I by Damian Conway and I by Lincoln Stein. @@ -276,12 +285,12 @@ Recommended books on (or mostly on) Perl follow. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl3/ Perl 5 Pocket Reference - by Johan Vromans + by Johan Vromans ISBN 0-596-00032-4 [3rd edition May 2000] http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlpr3/ Perl in a Nutshell - by Ellen Siever, Stephan Spainhour, and Nathan Patwardhan + by Ellen Siever, Stephan Spainhour, and Nathan Patwardhan ISBN 1-56592-286-7 [1st edition December 1998] http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlnut/ @@ -289,7 +298,7 @@ Recommended books on (or mostly on) Perl follow. Elements of Programming with Perl by Andrew L. Johnson - ISBN 1884777805 [1st edition October 1999] + ISBN 1-884777-80-5 [1st edition October 1999] http://www.manning.com/Johnson/ Learning Perl @@ -306,8 +315,8 @@ Recommended books on (or mostly on) Perl follow. Perl: The Programmer's Companion by Nigel Chapman ISBN 0-471-97563-X [1997, 3rd printing Spring 1998] - http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/97563-X.htm - http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/chapman/perl/perltpc.html (errata etc) + http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/97563-X.htm + http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/chapman/perl/perltpc.html (errata etc) Cross-Platform Perl by Eric Foster-Johnson @@ -349,35 +358,35 @@ Recommended books on (or mostly on) Perl follow. Object Oriented Perl Damian Conway with foreword by Randal L. Schwartz - ISBN 1884777791 [1st edition August 1999] + ISBN 1-884777-79-1 [1st edition August 1999] http://www.manning.com/Conway/ Data Munging with Perl - Dave Cross - ISBN 1930110006 [1st edition 2001] - http://www.manning.com/cross + Dave Cross + ISBN 1-930110-00-6 [1st edition 2001] + http://www.manning.com/cross - Learning Perl/Tk - by Nancy Walsh - ISBN 1-56592-314-6 [1st edition January 1999] - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperltk/ + Mastering Perl/Tk + by Steve Lidie and Nancy Walsh + ISBN 1-56592-716-8 [1st edition January 2002] + http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mastperltk/ =back =head2 Perl in Magazines -The first and only periodical devoted to All Things Perl, +The first (and for a long time, only) periodical devoted to All Things Perl, I contains tutorials, demonstrations, case studies, announcements, contests, and much more. I has columns on web development, databases, Win32 Perl, graphical programming, regular expressions, and networking, and sponsors the Obfuscated Perl Contest and the Perl Poetry Contests. As of mid-2001, the dead tree version of TPJ will be published as a quarterly supplement of SysAdmin -magazine ( http://www.sysadmin.com/ ) For more details on TPJ, +magazine ( http://www.sysadminmag.com/ ) For more details on TPJ, see http://www.tpj.com/ Beyond this, magazines that frequently carry quality articles on -Perl are I ( http://www.webtechniques.com/ ), +Perl are I ( http://www.theperlreview.com ), I ( http://www.unixreview.com/ ), I ( http://www.linuxmagazine.com/ ), and Usenix's newsletter/magazine to its members, I @@ -392,7 +401,7 @@ http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/ . To get the best performance, pick a site from the list below and use it to grab the complete list of mirror sites -which is at /CPAN/MIRRORED.BY or at http://mirror.cpan.org/. +which is at /CPAN/MIRRORED.BY or at http://mirror.cpan.org/ . From there you can find the quickest site for you. Remember, the following list is I the complete list of CPAN mirrors (the complete list contains 165 sites as of January 2001): @@ -405,7 +414,6 @@ following list is I the complete list of CPAN mirrors ftp://ftp.uvsq.fr/pub/perl/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.dti.ad.jp/pub/lang/CPAN/ - ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/perl/CPAN/ ftp://cpan.if.usp.br/pub/mirror/CPAN/ One may also use xx.cpan.org where "xx" is the 2-letter country code @@ -418,14 +426,18 @@ Most of the major modules (Tk, CGI, libwww-perl) have their own mailing lists. Consult the documentation that came with the module for subscription information. - http://lists.cpan.org/ +A comprehensive list of Perl related mailing lists can be found at: + + http://lists.cpan.org/ + +( also visible as http://lists.perl.org/ ) =head2 Archives of comp.lang.perl.misc The Google search engine now carries archived and searchable newsgroup content. -http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&group=comp.lang.perl.misc +http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.perl.misc If you have a question, you can be sure someone has already asked the same question at some point on c.l.p.m. It requires some time and patience @@ -440,7 +452,7 @@ in releases and comes in well-defined packages. There is a very large user community and an extensive literature. The comp.lang.perl.* newsgroups and several of the mailing lists provide free answers to your questions in near real-time. Perl has traditionally been supported by -Larry, scores of software designers and developers, and myriads of +Larry, scores of software designers and developers, and myriad programmers, all working for free to create a useful thing to make life better for everyone. @@ -493,7 +505,7 @@ bugs. Read the perlbug(1) man page (perl5.004 or later) for more information. -=head2 What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? +=head2 What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org? The Perl Home Page at http://www.perl.com/ is currently hosted by The O'Reilly Network, a subsidiary of O'Reilly and Associates. @@ -516,9 +528,12 @@ and there are many other sub-domains for special topics, such as http://bugs.perl.org/ http://history.perl.org/ http://lists.perl.org/ - http://news.perl.org/ http://use.perl.org/ +http://www.cpan.org/ is the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, +a replicated worlwide repository of Perl software, see +the I question earlier in this document. + =head1 AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington.