This question is entirely to subjective to be answered here - IMHO (I won't try). And, even if it wasn't, I would suggest the node be moved to meditations rather than SoPW.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlbp/ You get chapter 9 for free. I think to seriously address this on PM we would have to reconstruct the whole book.
Evan Carroll
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