I have an even dozen, roughly sorted in order of usefulness. Note that the books at the bottom of the list are still useful, they just have a smaller domain. A lot of people rave about Effective Perl Programming, but I think it loses a few points on its index -- it's not very good. A number of times I wanted to re-read a particular passage, and I kept drawing a blank, so now it's been swapped out, until I have time to read it from cover to cover, this time annotating it in the margin.
- The Perl Cookbook
- Programming Perl (editions 1, 2 and 3)
- Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C
- Network Programming in Perl
- Mastering Algorithms in Perl
- Advanced Perl Programming
- Object-Oriented Programming in Perl
- Perl for System Administration
- Perl 5 Pocket Reference
- Effective Perl Programming
- Programming the Perl DBI
- CGI Programming with Perl
--g r i n d e r
just another bofh
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