[plug] PERL book

[Trevor Phillips]

Christian wrote:
> 
> I've known some pretty good Perl programmers who learnt their craft
> reading Learning Perl and manual pages.  Programming Perl duplicates to a
> large extent the contents of the manual pages, so, in some ways it is
> questionable whether some-time Perl programmers really need it.

Lots of people rave about the Perl books. I, myself, learnt Perl from an online
Tutorial, and from Online versions of the Man pages (on my local server, for
quick reference). I've referred to Programming Perl a few times, but usually
only end back at the MAN pages, and reading CPAN documentation on certain
packages.

I do have one "Bible", though; "Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C". It's
specialised for Apache Modules, though, rather than a general Perl book.

It IS by O'Reilly though, and I highly reccomend if you're after Perl books,
then O'Reilly's are the ones to get. I'll probably get the CD-ROM version of
the 6 for reference purposes. ^_^

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