Re: Choice Perl Book Picks

[melguin]

learning perl (O'Reilly) first.
the perl in a nutshell and/or programming perl (also both O'Reilley)

[Chrisf]

Just don't get 'Perl and CGI for the world wide web' by Elizabeth Castro. That was the first Perl book I bought and it's no good at all. Learning Perl was excellent though.

[Beatnik]

check Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web for a nice review of the older print, basic overview is there : Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web

Greetz
Beatnik
... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.

[George_Sherston]

I'll second that - I felt it was a great book if I wanted to do exactly the same as the authors - not very tmtowtdi.

§ George Sherston

[htoug]

davorg has told me that version 2 of the Castro book will be much better (or less awfull :) as he has corrected a large number of errors in cooperation with the author.

See his use.perl.org journal for details

Update Changed link to the exact journal entry

[davorg]

The second edition of the Castro book has been out for a couple of months now. It is a lot better, but it still only teaches a subset of Perl and (as the title suggests) assumes that you're only interested in using Perl for CGI work.

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