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Some of those may be bad books for teaching you to be a -good- Perl programmer, but the important thing is to get people interested in Perl in the first place. I started with with the Matt Wright script archive book and Teach Yourself CGI Programming with Perl 5 in a Week, neither of which are that great, but they taught me enough to get started writing / modifying basic Perl scripts.

I say keep the books - not everyone has money for new, better books. If you think the books aren't first-notch, just paste a blurb on the inside cover telling people where to go to learn more (perlfunc, perlvar, and here).

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Re^2: Scrounged books are not always good.
by Marza (Vicar) on May 21, 2006 at 18:49 UTC

    I did give the 21 days a scan and it's obviously dated and at best a "get your feet wet" type of book.

    She has final say over it. If she won't get rid of it, I will put in a disclaimer. Good idea! Thanks!