Walt Mankowski on 5 Mar 2008 12:39:35 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] Perl introduction


On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:27:34PM -0500, brent saner wrote:
> Kyle R. Burton wrote:
> | What about learning perl and programming perl are not quite right
> | for you?  Iow, what's missing from learning perl wrt being an
> | introductory book?
> |
> | Other recommendations
> |
> | Perl Cookbook - from the pragmatic perspective - to just see how
> | some things are done Object Oriented Perl - by Damian Conway Higher
> | Order Perl - by MJD
> |
> | The last two are not introductions to Perl itself, but OOP is good
> | for learning OOP in perl and HOP is good for other reasons...
> |
> 
> oh, don't get me wrong; i am THOROUGHLY enjoying the O'Reillys! i've
> always felt O'Reilly texts to be pretty good for introduction (albeit
> a little lacking in the examples department compared to other texts).
> i was just wondering if any of the perl hackers had any personal
> favourites in addition to the two. :)

Well, the Perl Cookbook is 964 pages of examples...

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