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!
HTH,
David
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