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Re: Good Perl book?

by Athanasius (Archbishop)
on Feb 10, 2017 at 15:35 UTC ( [id://1181680]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Good Perl book?

I second the recommendation by nysus. In fact, I learned Perl from the Camel Book,1 which, despite being a reference work, is fun to read (in the early chapters).

I also made (and still make) extensive use of the free documentation at http://perldoc.perl.org/. Work through perlintro and the various tutorials (especially perldsc), familiarise yourself with the FAQs, and study perlsyn, perlref, and perlre. When I’m coding, I have this Perl documentation open in a browser window at all times.

The Perl Cookbook is now rather dated, but it’s still useful as a guide to well-written Perl code.

1Programming Perl by Tom Christiansen, brian d foy & Larry Wall with Jon Orwant, currently in its 4th Edition (2012).

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((><contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

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Re^2: Good Perl book?
by nysus (Parson) on Feb 10, 2017 at 15:41 UTC

    Regarding perldocs, they are like impossible for newbs to understand and even intermediate users like me tend to avoid them and do a google search instead. It's a bad habit to get into, though, as perldocs make it really easy to look things up fast if you get familiar with them. This is something I try to work on.

    $PM = "Perl Monk's";
    $MCF = "Most Clueless Friar Abbot Bishop Pontiff Deacon Curate";
    $nysus = $PM . ' ' . $MCF;
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