OzzyOsbourne wrote:
I looked at all of the books on PERL in a few bookstores, and the one that made the most sense to me was SAMS "Teach Yourself PERL in 21 days."

This book was really good when it covered perl4, but the perl 5 version is a complete rewrite (by Laura Lemay if I remember correctly) and is no good.

I recommended it to an ambitious and effective webmaster, believing the book was just an update of the old one. She found it next to useless for a beginner, you simply choke on the first examples unless you are accustomed to reading STDIN.

/jeorgen

In reply to RE: RE: Best Perl Book by jeorgen
in thread Best Perl Book by Mork29

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