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Originally Posted by Rebocide
I been thinking bout using perl or just something besides vb but i dont wanna commit to something i won't really get into.. Is there a site with some good information and a break down of perl i can check out? Like i said i dont wanna commit and get into it if i think it just dont work for me.
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All Perl dists come with core language references. The Activestate bundled docs have a fair amount of info. about using Windows specifics (using Perl in IIS, doing COM, WSH, etc), which would probably be useful to a person trying to move from vb. Any module more than 5 lines contains embedded docs that can be read using the perldoc function. These are very terse, though, and probably won't be very useful until you get to know the language a bit.
If you had more specific questions, like, "where can I look for x" or "what is a good book for x", then I think I could help a little bit more, but as it is, I don't really know what to recommend. Some people can just look at the included language reference and be good to go (or worse yet, the bnf grammar!). Others need a library of books that hold your hand and walk you through several example programs. How did you learn VB?
I can say that I, personally, think that the camel and llama books are a bit overrated, since I believe that the bundled docs provide equally useful (and oft times more current) referential material. The book that I used to recommend most often (back when I still recommended learning Perl!) was "Teach yourself Perl in 21 Hours" or something like that. I'm 99% sure it was "hours" and not "days," which also exists, I think. The book was designed to guide your progress through the language with a number of chapters each small enough to be digested within an hour. The author (sorry, I can't remember who) broke the language down exceptionally well, choosing good points of division and good order of introduction. Each chapter culminated in one or more examples that used the technologies discussed so far. There might've even been exercises/questions for further study at the end of each chapter (can't remember... sorry).