With amendments. Don't read Perl Best Practices (yet?). It's not really for beginners, it's only about 50% universally agreed upon, and it will lead down unnecessary side-rails; I thought Conway's OOP book was more helpful to getting an understanding of what is possible with Perl. Higher Order Perl is also for those who are either experienced in Perl or another high level language. I would add Modern Perl to the list today. There are many, many other interesting books on Perl worth checking out.

> Don't read Perl Best Practices (yet?)

Really? You surely mean for beginners.

I was already hacking Perl for years before reading PBP and it opened the doors into understanding Perl and "best practices" general.

Agreed inside-out is definitely out now, but it's a thick book anyway. ;)

His OOP book is brilliant too.

Cheers Rolf
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No, I agree with you. “Yet” doesn’t need a question mark and parenthetical. I think it’s likely to lead to cargo culted style in someone who hasn’t been doing Perl for at least a couple of years though.

For my part, I had the 255 recommendations summary on my cube wall for a long time and red-lined out the ones to which I don’t subscribe/agree and in my case it was closer to 80% agreement than 50%. :P

Thanks LanX & Your Mother. I have been messing about with Perl for a good few years now but it really has been just that. I have Picked up a few books (OOP & PBP) to try and get a bit more familiar and also in an attempt to try and tidy up my very messy scripts.

I'll also check out Modern Perl, sounds interesting :)