And a bad book can cause lots of damage.

(e.g. I can't recommend PBP w/o mentioning to ignore the Inside-Out-Class chapter)

But I get your point, lately I was in a bookstore to find good MySQL literature to help elevate the level of our DBA.

At the end I found out it was far more economic to let my client buy them all and decide in practice which to keep (and while being payed)

Unfortunately there is no German version of "Modern Perl" for my colleagues, maybe I'll ask to translate the online version one day...

PBP is a rather strange case. Just like his OO book. I highly recommend it without necessarily endorsing all of the conclusions. He is extremely good at writing about thinking and even where I disagree I learned there were more things to consider than I had realized. And the OO book was a revelation for me and not specifically due to the subject matter.

Before someone gets me wrong I recommend PBP highly, it's actually my number one recommendation.

The problem are readers looking for a holy book with commandments they can fanatically follow.

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
Je suis Charlie!}