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* basic syntax rules
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Goals
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Welcome,
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- to this hands on tour through the more often needed details of this vast and beautiful
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- programming language. It is designed to provide you with :
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+ to this hands on tour through the more often needed parts of this vast and beautiful
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+ programming language. You can find here :
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- syntax knowledge
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- - bits of deeper understanding of the semantics
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- - sources for further learning (docs and more)
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- - a useful application
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+ - bits of deeper understanding for the design decisions
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- room for own experiments
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+ - a useful application
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- a taste of the full capabilities
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+ - sources for further learning (docs and more)
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Methods
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+ While all the action might be mostly between "you and your computer", we try to give
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+ you a feel that someone is guiding you in a real-world programming situation.
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+ You will be able to follow a train of thought from the first strategic decisions,
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+ to the selection process to find the most suitable Perl feature,
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+ then to the trying out of several ways to formulate it, up to the finishing edits
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+ of the implementation. Some evaluation helps you understand what has been achieved.
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+ That sounds like lot of text - but we actually tried to keep it informative and concise -
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+ advancing with a rather fast pace. Therefore we encourage you to read a chapter or
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+ paragraph repeatedly, as long you feel like not fully understanding it. We think
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+ that is way better than having to work through boring passages. Links to detailed
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+ information will be provided on the spot needed.
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+ The flip side of this practical, yet dense approach: you have to stick for the most
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+ part with the order of the content and won't be able to skip even several sentences.
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+ Because you might overlook this way an important feature, the next tho pages build upon.
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+ It is one program, that developes constantly from front to back. Some parts stay
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+ over long phases the same - other getting replaced quickly. While we strongly recommend
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+ to adapt the program to your wishes, you should be be aware that maintaining them
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+ through the whole tutorial might be a big extra task.
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Prerequisites
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- - (any) editor
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- - (any) shell
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- - few programming basics
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- curiosity
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+ - few programming basics
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+ - any editor
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+ - any shell
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+ - an open browser
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+ ----
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if you ever wondered what Perl 6 is able
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to this practical Tutorial, aimed to people who learn the most while
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