At 10:03 AM 06/25/2001 -0400, "Brian Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>To all,
>
>I have programmed in C, Fortran, C++, Java, Awk, Korn Shell, but I am
>new to Perl. I already have a few quick reference documentation for
>Perl in a Linux in a nutshell book. I have money to buy just one Perl
>book. What is the best one book that I can get to teach me Perl??
I'll chime in with another enthusiastic recommendation of Randal's book,
"Learning Perl" (aka Llama book). If you already have basic programming
fundamentals under your belt, this book will really help bring you up to
speed with Perl in no time at all. I was frankly shocked how well this book
worked for me, especially after plunking down tons of money on other really
lame Perl books such as "Perl 5 for dummies" and 2 of Selena Sol's horrible
Perl/CGI books (heh...I didn't know any better at the time!)
Another book which i like is the "Perl Black Book". I know /many/
experienced perl-tistas would disagree with me, but I actually like it's
Problem->Solution approach to presenting perl functions. Though I would
like to find out where the technical flaws are in this book from some of
the more enlightened Perl reviewers.
I also think the O'reilly Perl Cookbook is fabulous too (in the same vein
as the Black Book).
I know you only asked for one book, but I don't believe there is such a
thing as "THE book" for learning perl matters :)
Aloha,
mel
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