I have to agree. This book has taken me right from the clutches of programmers "writers block". This book always proves it's worth when you need to follow by example. A must have Perl reference for the novice to the Advanced programmmer.
And now comes the Second Edition. 80 new recipes, 100 updated recipes, and two new chapters, one on mod_perl and the other on XML. An excellent update to a beloved must have. My only gripe is that the examples are not yet up on the O'Reilly site.