[ILUG-Social] Perly

[Thomas Bridge]

At 15:39 11/10/2000 +0100, Guest, Ken wrote:
>#       I've decided to learn perl. It's about time. I've also decided
>#that it would be worth my while investing in a book to help me
>#do so. The
>#problem is that O'Reilly have many fine books on the subject:
>
>#Learning Perl, 2nd Edition
>#Perl in a Nutshell
>#Programming Perl, 3rd Edition
>
>#etc. etc. etc
>#Now - does anyone have any recommendations about which would
>#be best for
>#an absolute perl beginner? Or any other books? Bear in mind that I am a
>#programmer by profession, so complete idiocy _cannot_ be assumed -)
>
>Learning Perl would be the best of those books to start off on.

Given Stephen's statement that he's already a programmer, I'd have to 
recommend Programming Perl.

T.


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