> "Learning perl" (the camel book).
Actually, "The Camel" is Programming Perl, not Learning Perl. Learning Perl is the Oreily book with a lama or something on the front. In any event, I found Learning Perl very difficult to follow. It would be especially difficult if you are not familar with C or C++ as many of the examples say something like "this is very simular to C syntax," or something along those lines. Additionally, Tom Christiansen and Larry Wall (two of "The Camel" authors) tend to throw humor in at various places in their text. Once you get your hands around perl, this humor is actually very good. Unfortunately, it tends to cloud topics for the beginner when reading Learning Perl (actually, I'm not positive Larry Wall is one of the authors of Learning Perl, but Tom Chritainsen certainly is) A much better book for a beginner is Perl5 by Example by Que. Extremely good book!! Follows very logic sequence in an easy to understand, straight forward manner. > "Perl Cookbook" (the bighorn sheep book). Agreed, the Perl Cookbook is very good text. I'd read Perl by Example first, then kind of thumb through Perl Cookbook. I've been programming in perl for some time now and I still haven't used all of the techniques from this book. After you start to spread your wings a little, you'll want to get a copy of "The Camel" (i.e., Programming Perl). This is the definitive text for perl programming, but certainly a text for a beginner . Good luck. Regards, -- Greg J. Zartman, P.E. Vice-President Logging Engineering International, Inc. 1243 West 7th Avenue Eugene, Oregon 97402 541-683-8383 fax 541-683-8144 -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
