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Re^2: How best to learn OO Perl?
by jdtoronto (Prior) on Jul 01, 2006 at 01:35 UTC
    Well, "Intermediate Perl" is not one of my favourites sadly merlyn, I am glad you didn't mention "Learning Perl Objects, References and Modules"! Whilst I like your columns I have found that one in particular difficult to follow. However, "Learning Perl" is never far away, it is on the shelf right behind me.

    I taught myself OOPerl from "learning Perl Objects" but didn't understand it and become comfortable with it until "Object Oriented Perl", I am also a fan of "Perl Best Practices" ( thedamian ) and "Higher Order Perl" ( dominus ).

    But why does nobody mention "Effective Perl Programming" (Hall and Schwarz 1998), it is still a handy reference with some good ideas, and the 20 pages on Object Oriented Programming forms a conconcise introduction to the topic.

    jdtoronto

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Re^2: How best to learn OO Perl?
by TStanley (Canon) on Jul 01, 2006 at 01:12 UTC
    And the fact that you're one of the authors isn't influencing your recommendation :-)

    Jokes aside, I would second merlyn's reccomendation of his book as a good way to learn OO Perl, followed by Damian's OO Perl book, which goes into a lot more detail

    TStanley
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