OK, I was going to stay out of this, because I have experience working for a few publishers and am not, therefore, an objective observer.

However, someone needs to plug the recently released Learning Perl, 3rd Ed.. What was the de-facto standard (co-written by someone we know) has been greatly improved.

I'm one of those people you don't want in your training sessions. Yet, Llama3 read precisely like the best seminars/training classes I've attended. Even if you have an older edition of the book, I urge you to take a look. It's well worth buying again.

imnsho, of course. ymmv...

--f

P.S. Since you insist, I will almost always prefer O'Reilly over Sams. The former tries; the latter doesn't seem to give a pica about quality--only money.

Update: Yak! I fixed that last comment to reflect my true feelings. Bloody tpyo's.