I disagree. The second edition of "Learning Perl" (which was the one that also came with a Win32 edition) was not aimed at complete non-programmers. I hear that the 3rd edition addresses this, but I haven't read it yet. The 3rd edition also does away with the need for a separate Win32 version as it covers cross-platform information in more detail.

In my opinion, the best book for non-programmers to learn Perl is Andrew Johnson's "Elements of Programming with Perl".

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