Perl language dictionary entry
Chris Frayda
I am hoping you folks would help with a Perl Language Dictionary (cheat-sheet)
page in the Software Engineers' Handbook Wikibook. I remember just a smidge of
Perl, but not enough syntax to help a programmer with a project. I'm looking
for a quick overview of general program structure with pointers to more
specific information. (Yes, I could look this all up, but it's much much
faster
if you know the language well. The site is under the GNU Documentation
License,
so I don't want to take examples directly from books and many online
references.)
Here is the web site
<http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Software_Engineers_Handbook>http://en.wikibook
s.org/wiki/Software_Engineers_Handbook (A language template is available at
the
site.)
I would be happy to coordinate submissions for folks unwilling to adjust to
wiki markup.
Thanks for the help!
Chris
Christopher Nehren
curious markings:
> Hello all, I am hoping you folks would help with a Perl
> Language Dictionary (cheat-sheet) page in the Software
> Engineers' Handbook Wikibook. I remember just a smidge of
> Perl, but not enough syntax to help a programmer with a
> project. I'm looking for a quick overview of general program
> structure with pointers to more specific information. (Yes, I
> could look this all up, but it's much much faster if you know
> the language well. The site is under the GNU Documentation
> License, so I don't want to take examples directly from books
> and many online references.)
ISTR someone rather well-respected in the Perl community
producing something like this quite a while ago. I can't
remember who, and I don't want to falsely attribute someone's
work. A quick Google should bring you what you want. From there,
contact the author (if they're as well-respected as I think,
their contact information should be easily found).
Best Regards,
Christopher Nehren
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John Bokma
> Hello all,
> I am hoping you folks would help with a Perl Language Dictionary
> (cheat-sheet) page in the Software Engineers' Handbook Wikibook. I
> remember just a smidge of Perl, but not enough syntax to help a
> programmer with a project. I'm looking for a quick overview of general
> program structure with pointers to more specific information. (Yes, I
> could look this all up, but it's much much faster
> if you know the language well. The site is under the GNU Documentation
> License,
> so I don't want to take examples directly from books and many online
> references.)
http://www.squirrel.nl/people/jvromans/perlref-history.html
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Sherm Pendley
> if you know the language well. The site is under the GNU Documentation
> License,
> so I don't want to take examples directly from books and many online
> references.)
Perl and all its included documentation is distributed under two licenses,
Perl's own Artistic License and the GPL. I'm no lawyer, but I'd imagine that
one or both of those should be compatible with the GDL.
Having said that, the text from "perldoc perlintro" sounds appropriate.
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