Re: Oreilly's "Learning Perl 3rd Edition"

From: Wiggins D Anconia (wiggins_at_danconia.org)
Date: 01/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 08:18:59 -0700
To: u235sentinel@comcast.net, beginners@perl.org

> I'm nearly finished with this book (definitely excellent book!). Some
items I need to review again (expressions will take some work).
Afterwards I plan on moving upward and onward in perl. I'm curious if
Oreilly's "Programming Perl" or "Perl Cookbook" would be good to jump
into. Or is there another book I should study?
>

In the past I would have suggested Programming Perl, the cookbook is
more for examples of specific items, an excellent resource to be sure,
but not necessarily learning material. Recently I would suggest the
Llama's new soul mate,

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lrnperlorm/

It will take you to the next level for sure. The old soul mate, which I
really enjoyed at the time seems to have lost some of its luster, at
least in that ORA seems to have replaced it with the above,

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/advperl/

The two above overlap a good deal.

Having said that, the Camel is indispensable and should be on every Perl
programmers shelf. Naturally there is also Safari if you aren't into
being a zoo keeper like some of us (or don't have the funds)....

http://danconia.org

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