After reading the replies, I realise that my question was not enough. What I really wanted to ask was:

What's the most useful thing to learn after covering everything in Learning Perl?

This question as well is not enough. :-) There is a lot of material to go through. The order that you use depends greatly on what you want to get from it. Is this your career, do you need to get up to speed ASAP? Then you'll want to buy multiple books and read perldoc, use what you learn, and repeat until you are blue in the face. Some foundational books I've used are "Programming Perl", "Perl Cookbook" and "Object Oriented Perl". I had a long programming background in other languages so reference works helped me most (i.e. I never bought "Learning Perl"). If you are newer to programming, others may have to help here. Sometimes classes can work wonders.

If this is just a hobby on the otherhand or you are writing a few short scripts here and there, then your perferred style of learning becomes more imporant (i.e. to keep it enjoyable, and less costly).

In reply to Re: What's the most important thing to learn in the Perl world? by bluto
in thread What's the most important thing to learn in the Perl world? by ghenry

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