"Learning Perl", Schwartz, Phoenix, defoy, and others, (AKA The Llama Book) is the best introductory book on Perl. The book is entertaining, enlightening, and in it's sixth edition -- it's that good.
Perl will change how you look at Computer languages. There are two mottoes in the Perl World: "There's More That One Way To Do It (TMTOWTDI, pronoounced Tim Toady), and "Make easy things simple and hard things possible". Perl was the first languageI ever encountered where the Language did not get in the way of implementing solutions. It has just enough 'boiler plate' -- syntax that has to be there to keep the Compiler happy, to prevent a Perl program from disolving into an unreadable mush of characters (here's looking at you Ken Ivorson). Once you get comfortable with Perl, most every other Language feels clunky and contrived. Perl tries to stay out of the way and let you concentrate onwriting solutions to problems. Welcome to the Zoo, where we keep the strange and wonderous creatures! B On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Mayuresh Kathe <mayur...@kathe.in> wrote: > hi, this is my first mail to this list, and the first time i'll be > working with perl. > > i've been searching for books on learning and mastering perl and found > the series by o'reilly to be quite well recommended. > > would i be right in my assumption about the o'reilly books being good? > if not, are there any better books out there, for a newbie to perl and > for someone returning to programming after a gap of more than 7 years. > > thanks, > > ~mayuresh > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > -- Bob Goolsby bob.gool...@gmail.com
