I read the cookbook a couple of times, but I've been doing without it for years now. I think the Camel book is by far the more useful book, especially since the 3rd edition. The perl books I have and use are:

Programming perl, advanced perl programming, mastering algorithms with perl, extending and embedding perl, writing apache modules with perl and C, and object oriented perl.

the only one of these I'm not sure about is mastering algorithms with perl. I've found it an occasionally useful book, but there are much better books about algorithms.

update: and I think my choice shows that I'm more interested in why than how.

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

In reply to Re: What If: The Camel or the Cookbook by Joost
in thread What If: The Camel or the Cookbook by Your Mother

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