Sometime Today, Nikhil Karkera assembled some asciibets to say:
Are there any good books on Perl for beginers? Online sources prefered. I'm already reading through the man pages.
Man pages are the best. Also, download programs written in perl, and read them. Then, write your own. If you want books, read Learning Perl - Tom and Randy, Programming Perl - Larry, Tom and Randy, Mastering Regular Expressions - Friedl.
Also, I write my Perl programs in pico and run them from the shell prompt. Any better way to do this? I would prefer working on console
vim has a perl syntax colouring mode. You could use that. You shouldn't use pico for anything other than email really. You can execute through the shell itself, just use a different console.
Philip