X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperlfaq2.pod;h=f1781015d630011bd7201e31782d5bf5f89bc4b1;hb=f7e7bc433bd27536177abe998df51111ab543b7a;hp=4555714df458647cd4c8ed051393f689859e5ece;hpb=f224927c1e379a33cd6d5e0a5d25d0ecb9c9d964;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perlfaq2.pod b/pod/perlfaq2.pod index 4555714..f178101 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq2.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq2.pod @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ =head1 NAME -perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.9 $, $Date: 2002/03/09 21:01:13 $) +perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.13 $, $Date: 2002/04/26 16:56:35 $) =head1 DESCRIPTION @@ -183,10 +183,17 @@ following groups: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi Writing CGI scripts for the Web. -There is also a Usenet gateway to Perl mailing lists sponsored by perl.org at -nntp://nntp.perl.org, or a web interface to the same lists at -http://nntp.perl.org/group/ . Other groups are listed at -http://lists.perl.org/ +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? @@ -197,8 +204,8 @@ 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. If you're just looking for software, first use Google -( http://www.google.com/ ), Google's usenet search interface -( http://groups.google.com/ ), and CPAN Search ( http://search.cpan.org/ ). +( 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 @@ -278,12 +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/ @@ -291,7 +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 @@ -308,8 +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 @@ -351,35 +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 @@ -394,7 +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): @@ -407,7 +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 @@ -420,8 +426,12 @@ 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. +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