[plug] PERL book

[John Summerfield]

> 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?


One hopes you're going to learn programming first!

I find I usually need two books; one a tutorial kind of book to get me 
started. These are usually hopeless later though. Then there's a reference 
book that tells you everything you could possibly want to know and some 
you don't.

I have a picture of a pearl on a tutorial perl book I have. I suggest 
avoiding that one; I can now identify errors in it.

Oreilly books are generally good. There's a Llama book which I gather is 
tutorial in nature, and quite good. Were I buying fror you, it's one I'd 
look at early on.

I have Oreilly's Camel. It's mostly reference but has some tutorial 
sections.

Much of the reference material is lifted from the standard perl 
documentation; this has the disadvantage that if there's something in the 
book you don't understand, the man pages aren't going to tell you anything 
differently.

Nonetheless, it IS a good book.

-- 
Cheers
John Summerfield
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