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Books (Score:1)

by cog (4665)

Hello, newcomer :-)

I've been doing Perl for some years now and I do own a bunch of Perl books...

That one you mention there... never heard of it :-\

If I had to recommend you just one book to start with, it would definitely be, without hesitation, "Learning Perl", by Randal Schwartz [amazon.com]. [1]

Now *that* is a book.

Plus, everybody knows Randal. Those *three* authors of that book you mention? Never heard of them. I couldn't even find any of them on the CPAN or other Perl related sites, so...

But wait, there's mor
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  by eyidearie (6032) on 2005.07.07 13:16 (#41712) Journal
  
  Wow... that's some research you did right there! Thanks a lot, it's certainly helpful :-)
  
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