[plug] From 'Perl Query...'

[Kevin Shackleton]

So how do normal people pick up Perl?

I always thought of Perl as a interpreter language under unix that
solves problems that the shell won't do (or at least easily).  However I
have just been exposed to Perl as an activex type of component under Not
Terrific - you can't actually run the script directly but have to knock
up an html front end to call it.

Amazon have 3 "top seller" (they'd like to think!) books:

Programming Perl (3rd Edition) -- Larry Wall, et al; (Camel)
Learning Perl (2nd Edition) -- Randal L. Schwartz, et al; (South
American camelish thing)
Learning Perl/Tk: Graphical User Interfaces with Perl (O'Reilly
Nutshell) -- Nancy Walsh (emu?)

The Camel seems to be the traditional reference, but what are the others
like?  Or is there something better?

K.