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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl Tutorial?
Message-ID: <6729@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 4 Jan 90 22:16:27 GMT
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Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <4033@helios.TAMU.EDU> jak9213@helios.UUCP (John Kane) writes:
: What I do need is something that will point me in the right direction as
: far as getting started in using perl.

Randal and I are working on it.  Someday you may have an S&W on your shelf.

In the meantime, you want to glare at some of the examples in the eg
directory.  Maybe run an awk script through a2p and see how it corresponds.

Larry