Well, when I started I found the Learning Perl book very good. I tend to like a 'proper' intro to a new lang, rather than just diving into eg the Camel; YMMV.
After that I largely used the Camel just for keyword/fn definitions and discovered the Cookbook, which IMHO, is worth it's weight in gold.
These days I find the docs at http://perldoc.perl.org/ a very good substitute for the Camel, as they are inevitably more up to date and contain lots of examples, plus the various links to key tutorials.

Again, YMMV. Plus of course CPAN and here (perlmonks).

Cheers
Chris

In reply to Re: The Road to Enlightenment? by chrism01
in thread The Road to Enlightenment? by DigitalKitty

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