Hi,

I'm a seasoned microsoft ASP programmer (7 years experience) who's been working in the .NET framework using VB for the past few years.

Amazingly, I seem to have landed myself a job programming Perl despite a complete ignorance of the language!

Can anyone suggest a good book for me to start to get to grips with the language? The so-called "Camel Book" seems very popular, but I'm not sure how appropriate it is for a beginner with no experience of anything but the microsoft paradigm.

Cheers,
Matt

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