Perldoc is somewhat hard to get into...but it's the manual for a programming language, so that's expected; I don't think having pages to color and draw on would be a feasible idea for the next update. :-)I immediately disagreed. I think it is a fine idea and began work on such a document. At first it was simply a joke, but I am beginning to think that it might actually be a very good, light-hearted, introduction to Perl concepts such as CPAN, reporting bugs, etc. As with just about everything I do, I have put it up on GitHub. Fork it and add to it.
=head1 NAME
perlcolor - coloring book for new perlers
=head1 IMAGES
=head2 Camels and Llamas
Camels in connection with Perl are a trademark of O'Reilly Media. O'Reilly
publishes many of the most important Perl books such as Programming Perl (aka the Camel) and Learning Perl (aka the Llama). Have you read them?
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=head2 Monkeys
In the end we are all code monkeys. Code, code monkeys, code!
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=head2 Butterflies
Camelia is a butterfly. She is the Perl 6 mascot. Can you find the hidden
P6?
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=head2 Bugs
Bugs are errors in code. Sometimes the bug is in Perl, but most of the time
the bug is your code. If you think the bug is in someone else's code, you
should report it to them. CPAN has a link for reporting bugs on each
module's page. Have you ever found a bug?
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=head2 Penguins
This is Tux. He is the Linux mascot. Linux is an important platform for
Perl. Linux comes in many flavors: Redhat, Ubuntu, SUSE, and many others.
Do you run Linux?
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=head2 Daemons
This is the BSD Daemon. His name is Beastie. BSD is an important platform
for Perl. FreeBSD, NetBSD, OS X, and others are all variants of BSD. Do
you run a BSD variant?
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=head2 Strawberries
Strawberry Perl is a version of Perl for Microsoft Windows. It comes with
its own build environment to make installing Perl modules from CPAN easy.
Have you every installed a Perl module from CPAN?
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=head2 Shebang
The shebang line is what tells the OS the path to Perl. What is the path to
your Perl?
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=head1 TODO
We need a good ASCII art version of Hexley (the Darwin Mascot).
My strawberry is terrible.
=head1 LICENSE
The BSD Daemon appears to be public domain. The strawberry and the #! are
released under the same terms as Perl. The rest of the ASCII art came from
L<http://www.geocities.com/soho/7373/index.html>.
I have a bug report! :)
ReplyDelete"Have you every" should be "Have you ever".
Actually, this is pretty amusing. Good work.
Why thank you hobbs. The GitHub version is now fixed.
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