:: What are some of the best books for newbies to perl?
I’ve been learning Perl now for a year and have already
amassed quite a collection of books. Before putting money down
on any of them I would suggest reading the Perl introduction
that comes with your computer’s installation of Perl.
In the command line type: perldoc perlintro
OR goto: <http://perldoc.perl.org/perlintro.html>
Getting back to books, I would say it depends on whether
you’re coming from a programming/computer science background
or not. If you are, Learning Perl is a very good bet.
I you’re not coming from a programming background (HTML
doesn’t count) as I was, the O’Reilly books (like Learning
Perl and Programming Perl) are tough to digest in the
beginning. (Although, I’ve found Mastering Regular
Expressions to be pretty good.) I think you may be better off
lurking on lists like this and reading the tutorials on forums
like Perl Monks for a little while then pick up Programming Perl
and/or Modern Perl.
Good luck and have fun!
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