I've read Object Oriented Perl, and Data Munging with Perl, and a number of non-ORA other books. Personally, while I'm sure that all these authors are an excellent programmers, their books tended to be pedantic and (I felt) didn't add very much to the 3rd ed. Camel's treatment of whichever subject.

Effective Perl Programming was a delightful surprise. But, it still didn't add a huge amount to my personal knowledge. Programming Perls was the same way.

If you want to learn to program, take a course.

If you want to learn the language of Perl, read the Camel book, then hang out on PM.

If you want to learn how to program well, it doesn't matter how many Perl books you read because you will still have a myopic view of programming. Read Code Complete and The Pragmatic Programmer for that knowledge.

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Camel vs Llama for a newbie by dragonchild
in thread Camel vs Llama for a newbie by jerrygarciuh

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