> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Francisco Valladolid <fic...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi. > > I think any perl book can be good! >
I'm suddenly reminded of this slide: http://mag-sol.com/talks/idiotic/text9.html As a beginner myself, I was lucky enough to start with Learning Perl, 5th edition, of which I have absolutely no complains and wish more people would read. Afterwards, I moved on to Intermediate Perl and Programming Perl, 3rd edition; Got a couple of chapters left in both, but I'd highly recommend Intermediate Perl, even if only for the chapters on map, grep, sort, and references; I've mostly skimmed over the Objects chapters, because, well, Moose[0]. Programming Perl is a tad dated; It contains a huge amount of interesting topics, but even as a starter Perler I could tell some of the advice was better left ignored (objects, bareword filehandles, a couple of out-of-date modules, and if I recall right, the threads section touched mostly 5.005 threads). It not bad at all (for instance, the section on the Tie modules was a complete eyes-opener), but I wouldn't recommend it to a complete beginner, or to someone who doesn't regularly read this mailing list, the docs, or PerlMonks[1]. In-between, I've also started reading Minimal Perl for Unix People[2] and the Perl Cookbook(also mentioned earlier..), 1st edition(..but probably the 2nd edition); Minimal Perl, as an initially Non-Unix person, actually helped me in understanding grep and map, and introduced me to calling Perl from the command line, which has since become quite essential at work - But I reserve judgement until I actually read more than four chapters. As for the cookbook, found it stashed away on the college library, and been reading it on-and-off for a couple of weeks; I've very often considered buying a copy, as the advice seems useful enough, although I can't vouch for it's validity in more modern Perl. Here's hoping this was mildly useful! Brian. [0]http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/Moose-1.14/lib/Moose.pm [1]http://www.perlmonks.org/ [2]http://minimalperl.com/
