On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 07:42:24PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 03/05/2012 07:19 AM, lina wrote: > >Which books are the best perl books you have ever read? > > 1. Learning Perl -- this book gets you up the initial learning > curve. Read it cover to cover, enter and play with the example code, > and do the exercises: > > http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920018452.do > > 2. Perl Cookbook -- this is a source book of example Perl code, > organized by topic/ task. The code is idiomatic, and the explanations > are excellent. This book will give you the understanding and confidence > you need to start writing useful Perl scripts: > > http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596003135.do > > 3. Programming Perl -- this is the language reference manual. Use it > to look things up when you need the hard-core explanation. The 4th > edition just came out: > > http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596004927.do > > > > Is the books wrote before 2006 a bit older, are there much changes in > > the last 10 years for perl? > > 1. I started with Perl 5.4 in 1998, progressed to 5.6 and 5.8, and > now use 5.10.1. The language fundamentals have remained stable over > the years. New versions have added more polish and a few key > features. Most of the changes I've noticed have been in the add-on > libraries (CPAN). > > 2. One of the primary reasons I learned Perl was WWW programming. > Many modules and frameworks have come (and/or gone) since I started, > but I still prefer the old-fashioned way -- CGI.pm on Linux, Apache, > and/or MySQL. I read the LWP book a few years ago and discovered > HTML::Tree, which I now use for templates. (I previously used > HTML::Template.) > > 3. Perl 5 includes primitives for building object-oriented systems > (blessed references, inheritance, dispatch). I buried myself under > plain Perl 5 OO for many years, but recently started using Moose. > Moose takes the drudgery out of Perl 5 OO and allows you to think > and code at a higher level -- good stuff! > http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2012/02/modern-perl-2011-2012-pdfs-available.html
might also be a worth a read. I'd say it's fairly up to date. Regards LB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
