Re^2: Best Perl Books of All Time

[tilly]

in reply to Re: Best Perl Books of All Time
in thread Best Perl Books of All Time

The Perl Black book?

As I pointed out in What do you know, and how do you know that you know it?, I would strongly recommend against it.

Incidentally if you want to fix your node, do what I did. Preview source, save a copy, go in and change the form to have an action of http://www.perlmonks.org, then fix the href, and respond on your private copy of the page.

[Marza]

Well I did try what I thought was right but planetscape beat me to the punch.

As to the black book being bad? There are some glaring issues. Some style such as the lack of the mantra of use strict; and the CGI stuff is not handled well and some other things.

I was not suggesting it as a beginners book. More for trying to get a concept. I usually review a couple books for something that is stumping me.

I know it's blasphamy but sometimes the cookbook doesn't do it for me. Too thick in the head I guess. ;)

[tilly]

A few details. Like lack of error checking and generally crap code. Which means that if you follow its advice and examples, you're guaranteed to write bad code, and won't have any idea where to start improving on it.

There are lots of books that try to break things up into easily digestable pieces. I'd recommend finding one that won't encourage bad habits.