As much as I love Perl and tend to use it for just about everything, making graphical desktop applications is not widely regarded as one of its strengths and I do not believe that Learning Perl goes into GUI programming at all. I do have a separate book (also from O'Reilly), Learning Perl/Tk on that topic, but, while I have read the book, I have not done enough with Tk programming to have any real sense of how good the book's information may be.

If, however, you're interested in making web-based applications, Perl is an excellent choice. The last chapter of Learning Perl covers CGI programming, which is the fundamental method of creating web-based applications in Perl, and there are many other books (as well as tutorials here on perlmonks) covering CGI for once you're comfortable with the basics of the language.

In reply to Re: Learn how to program by dsheroh
in thread Learn how to program by alf123

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