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Re: Re: Choice Perl Book Picks
by Chrisf (Friar) on Aug 10, 2001 at 01:48 UTC
    Just don't get 'Perl and CGI for the world wide web' by Elizabeth Castro. That was the first Perl book I bought and it's no good at all. Learning Perl was excellent though.
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      davorg has told me that version 2 of the Castro book will be much better (or less awfull :) as he has corrected a large number of errors in cooperation with the author.

      See his use.perl.org journal for details

      Update Changed link to the exact journal entry

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        The second edition of the Castro book has been out for a couple of months now. It is a lot better, but it still only teaches a subset of Perl and (as the title suggests) assumes that you're only interested in using Perl for CGI work.

        --
        <http://www.dave.org.uk>

        Perl Training in the UK <http://www.iterative-software.com>

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      I'll second that - I felt it was a great book if I wanted to do exactly the same as the authors - not very tmtowtdi.

      § George Sherston
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