[plug] PERL book

[Daniel Pearson]

How advanced does it make you, if you know what I mean? Does it teach you
how to make any scripts? ie. A simple mail one. If anyone here has a copy of
it, I'd like to borrow it for a while to see what it's like

-Daniel
----- Original Message -----
From: Christian <christian at global.net.au>
To: <plug at linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] PERL book


> On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Daniel Pearson wrote:
>
> > I'm also looking at buying a Perl book, I'm new to the language, and
sort of
> > new to Programming on a whole. Any suggestions on a good Perl book for a
> > beginner?
>
> "Learning Perl" Schwartz/Christensen from O'Reilly.
>
> Programming Perl is also good but if you want a really basic, "just the
> facts" introduction to the language then you can't beat LP.
>
> Regards,
>
> Christian.
>
>
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