Nkuipers wrote: > > Hello all, Hello,
> I am a relative newcomer to the language (couple of months), and I totally > love it. One way or the other, I use it almost every day in my work, and even > beyond practical applications I want to improve my Perl as much as I can. I > own the Camel 3ed, and between that and a resource-group (like this mailing > list) I would imagine I am covered. Don't forget all the documentation that is included with Perl. And http://cpan.org/ and http://learn.perl.org/ etc. > But then there is the Cookbook. > > My question is: > > for someone who intends to pursue Perl while he's still breathing, would you > recommend purchasing the Cookbook as an investment in skills and time-saving? I think the book that helped me the most after reading Programming Perl was Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex2/) IMHO most of O'Reilly's Perl books are worth the money, it just depends on what type of programming you do. John "waving at you from Vancouver" Krahn -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
