On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:22:12PM -0500, Jay Latham wrote: > I've decided that it's time I learned a little about > programming and I've decided that, for various reasons, > Perl would be a good place to start. But I'm confused on > which book would be best for a total newbie. I've been > leaning towards the oreilly books Learning Perl 3rd edition, > and/or Programming Perl but thought I'd ask for opinons > before making the purchase. Any suggestions?
the camel book, which is a wonderful reference, 'comes with the meat' as oscar madison might say... $ dpkg -l perl\* | grep doc pn perl-5.004-doc <none> (no description available) ii perl-5.005-doc 5.005.03-7.1 Man pages and pod docs for Perl un perl-doc <none> (no description available) $ dpkg -L perl-5.005-doc | grep man1/perl /usr/share/man/man1/perldebug.1p.gz /usr/share/man/man1/perlapio.1p.gz /usr/share/man/man1/perlbook.1p.gz /usr/share/man/man1/perlcall.1p.gz /usr/share/man/man1/perldata.1p.gz /usr/share/man/man1/perl5004delta.1p.gz /usr/share/man/man1/perldelta.1p.gz /usr/share/man/man1/perlembed.1p.gz /usr/share/man/man1/perldsc.1p.gz /usr/share/man/man1/perlstyle.1p.gz /usr/share/man/man1/perlfaq.1p.gz /usr/share/man/man1/perlfaq1.1p.gz /usr/share/man/man1/perlfaq2.1p.gz /usr/share/man/man1/perlfaq4.1p.gz /usr/share/man/man1/perlfaq5.1p.gz /usr/share/man/man1/perlfaq6.1p.gz /usr/share/man/man1/perlfaq7.1p.gz /usr/share/man/man1/perlfaq8.1p.gz 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/usr/share/man/man1/perldiag.1p.gz /usr/share/man/man1/perlfaq3.1p.gz /usr/share/man/man1/perlfaq9.1p.gz /usr/share/man/man1/perllol.1p.gz /usr/share/man/man1/perlsyn.1p.gz /usr/share/man/man1/perltrap.1p.gz access these with "perldoc perlrun" (or "man perlvar") for example. the perl-*-doc package also comes with extensive html docs stuffed into /usr/share/doc/ -- point lynx or konqueror or whatever your browser-of-the-moment happens to be, at /usr/share/doc/perl*doc/ $ dpkg -L perl-5.005-doc | grep share/doc /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/perl-5.005-doc /usr/share/doc/perl-5.005-doc/examples /usr/share/doc/perl-5.005-doc/examples/changes.gz /usr/share/doc/perl-5.005-doc/examples/cgi /usr/share/doc/perl-5.005-doc/examples/cgi/clickable_image.cgi.gz /usr/share/doc/perl-5.005-doc/examples/cgi/cookie.cgi.gz /usr/share/doc/perl-5.005-doc/examples/cgi/crash.cgi.gz /usr/share/doc/perl-5.005-doc/examples/cgi/customize.cgi.gz /usr/share/doc/perl-5.005-doc/examples/cgi/diff_upload.cgi.gz 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