On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 12:20:22PM -0400, Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote: > On Thu, 2006-27-04 at 11:03 -0500, Russ Foster wrote: > > Maybe I'll just buy a good reference book. ;-) > > I recommend "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : An Inquiry into > Values" by Robert M. Pirsig. Has nothing to do with Perl or computers > but is a good read anyway.
I've had that book for years, but haven't gotten around to reading it yet. There are so many other books to read, too. . . . Off the top of my head, my recommendations for learning Perl programming: The Camelid Trilogy (O'Reilly's Llama, Alpaca, and Camel books) some of the best Perl instructional and reference material available Tao Te Ching (a good translation -- I recommend Stephen Mitchell's) not strictly Perl-related, but full of epiphanies that'll help in all things, including programming Wicked Cool Perl Scripts (from No Starch Press) examples from which to learn are always good, and these are good examples with explanatory text and hints for hacking them for your own ends The Pragmatic Programmer (from the Pragmatic Programmers, of course) some of the best general-purpose programming wisdom available in hardcopy A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming has a name that's too long . . . but knowing the "unix experience" will help to understand the "Perl experience", and there are few textual vehicles for grokking that unix experience that are as effective as this All that having been said, I have a question. Do you think that Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance conveys wisdom that is distinctly helpful to a Perl programmer, or was that a complete non sequitur? Either way, I like the reference. -- Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ] print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2); -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
