Hi, I like:
Learning Perl by Randal Schwartz & Tom Phoenix as a good introduction with tons of further references
Programing Perl by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen and Jon Orwant as the ultimate refernce and pillow
Mastering Perl/Tk by Steve Lidie and Nancy Walsh for times when I dont have access to this mailing list and zentaras hints
The Perl Cookbook by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington for when I was to lasy to think for myself (or wanted to get depressed by how much better one could solve the problem Ive been working on in hunderts of lines)
And even though I never read it in the linear way: Mastering regular expressions by Jeffrey Friedl
Not to forget: perldoc perltoc or www.perldoc.com
and The Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy and Last Chance to see by Douglas Adams.
I guess others would recomend The Lord of the rings too.
Good night:-) Wolf
Since there was no mention what kind of perl books (beginner, etc.):
I'd add: "Object Oriented Perl" by Damian Conway, I've also been wanting to check out "Learning Perl Objects, References, & Modules" by Randall Schwartz. "Advanced Perl Programming" by Sriram Srinivasan (getting slightly out of date; seems I heard of updated edition coming ???). "Effective Perl Programming" by Joseph Hall is not bad. "Writing Perl Modules for CPAN" by Sam Tregar is pretty good if your going to write modules for CPAN. "Extending & Embedding Perl" by Tim Jenness & Simon Cozens is good if your going to get into Perl/XS.
You'll definately want the Perl Cookbook mentioned above. It's the Perl equivelant of the Effective C++ books.
Regards, Randy.
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