I have the Camel book, and while it doesn't go very far into detail concerning XML, CGI or similar technologies, it does give a general idea. I do hold to the fact that is the best reference book for the Perl language itself. If you want to go into the specifics I'd recommend one of the books that are dedicated to a certain facet of Perl, such as those dedicated solely to CGI with Perl, MySQL with Perl, etc.
And a piece of advice: Don't hesitate to deviate from your preferred publisher. There are a lot of other good computer book publishers out there, my personal favorite being Sybex. K. Parker "Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 07:32:32PM -0000, Stout, Joel R wrote: > > > Speaking of aging camels, is the Camel book still the best reference to > > have? I am new to Perl and have the Llama book. It's been a good starting > > place but one day I see myself moving past it. I would like something that > > covers the language in more detail and deals with Data Munging, XML, CGI, > > and DB updates. > > I'm sorry. I wasn't quite as clear as I should have been. I was > assuming an older version of the Camel. Camel 3 is recently out and I > would suggest that it is probably _the_ book to get. However, I don't > own it personally. I learnt Perl a long time ago from the man pages. > > Try > > perldoc -q book > > to see a list of recommended books. If you have a recent Perl you'll > get a recent list. If not you can probably find the list on > perldoc.com. > > -- > Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
