RE: Best Perl Book

If your friend is a real novice programmer, then I'd recommend Andrew Johnson's "Elements of Programming with Perl" which assumes no previous programming knowledge.

Having read that and got to grips with Perl, then the new edition of "CGI Programming with Perl" would be pretty useful.

After that, there are a numbr of books that every Perl programmer should have: "Programming Perl", "The Perl Cookbook", "Effective Perl Programming" and "Mastering Regular Expressions".

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RE: RE: Best Perl Book by jptxs (Curate) on Nov 07, 2000 at 01:19 UTC
You can find a {ahem} great review of Elements of Programming with Perl in the Reviews section. "sometimes when you make a request for the head you don't want the big, fat body...don't you go snickering." -- Nathan Torkington UoP2K a.k.a gnat	[reply]