Re: The Road to Enlightenment?

[LighthouseJ]

I started with two O'Reilly reference booklet things, one on general Perl and the other was for mod_perl, which was what I was hired to learn and write as my first job.

I took a break from Perl (went to college). When I got back into the workplace, I went with perldoc.perl.org pretty much as a reference guide. I had access to O'Reilly's CD bookshelf but the nuggets of useful information were too few to bother. The cookbooks were good to browse through to see other ways of doing common tasks like parsing text but in the end perldoc.perl.org is where I only go to these days.

I've always benefitted the most when learning things but simply looking at examples instead of droning proofs or explanations which is why I believe I prefer the brevity of reference guides over big books.