Re: What If: The Camel or the Cookbook

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?"

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Re^2: What If: The Camel or the Cookbook by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jul 28, 2004 at 23:58 UTC
Ah, yes, I've got a bookshelf sagging in the middle as well. I thought of the question when trying to decide which had helped me more as both had SO much. The Cookbook was instructive just from seeing so much clean, targeted code and the Camel (I agree the 3rd ed is mas bestes) from the range and depth. Have to put a gun to my head to make me choose, I think. The Cookbook might win b/c I learn better from example than explanation; and the joy of sitting down and coding something that works immediately is nice instant feedback. But the further I get, the more interesting the whys become.	[reply]

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Re^2: What If: The Camel or the Cookbook
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jul 28, 2004 at 23:58 UTC

Ah, yes, I've got a bookshelf sagging in the middle as well. I thought of the question when trying to decide which had helped me more as both had SO much. The Cookbook was instructive just from seeing so much clean, targeted code and the Camel (I agree the 3rd ed is mas bestes) from the range and depth. Have to put a gun to my head to make me choose, I think. The Cookbook might win b/c I learn better from example than explanation; and the joy of sitting down and coding something that works immediately is nice instant feedback. But the further I get, the more interesting the whys become.

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