I always find it best to be in a bookstore, grab a latte, and read some of each book (as well as the index, and TOC) to see which is written in a way you feel most comfortable with.

A very civilised way to buy books - let's see Amazon come up with something like that on the web (and patent it!)

My point was that by doing that, you can get a pretty good grasp of how well you'll be able to interact with a book's teaching style, but unless you know something about the subject then it's difficult to know how factually accurate the book will be. And if you want to learn Perl then chances are that you know very little about it.

I have no solution to this problem. I just wanted to point out that when people say "this book was really good" then they generally mean that they enjoyed the style rather than that the book taught good Perl.

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In reply to RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Best Perl Book by davorg
in thread Best Perl Book by Mork29

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