Friday, April 27
Slashdot | Data Munging with Perl Yes, you are missing something. You're absolutely right that you can get all the reference material you need on the web. That's what it does best. However, when you're trying to *learn* a new language, it's better to have your editor, a couple console windows, and a book open. That speeds up the write/compile/run cycle. No flipping back and forth from the browser. You learn faster.
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Re:The power of paper? (Score:5, Interesting)
by interiot (interiot54793@dbn.domainvalet.com) on Thursday April 26, @12:38PM EST (#44)
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Get a second monitor to read documentation from. Not only would it pay for itself within 4 books, but it's more useful than a stack of spent books.
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Re:The power of paper? (Score:5, Interesting)
by interiot (interiot54793@dbn.domainvalet.com) on Thursday April 26, @12:38PM EST (#44)
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Get a second monitor to read documentation from. Not only would it pay for itself within 4 books, but it's more useful than a stack of spent books.
