Re: If I could only own one Perl book, it would be:

in reply to If I could only own one Perl book, it would be:

Cookbook, too; perldoc -f is always handy for what the camel book offers. (and paper? I stopped killing trees to write programs just as fast as I could ;)

My real answer, though, is "whichever applies to what I'm doing at the moment and has what I don't know well enough yet." That was "Programming the Perl DBI" most recently. Dunno what it'll be next.

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Jim Meyer, Geek At Large

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Re^2: If I could only own one Perl book, it would be: by McDarren (Abbot) on May 24, 2006 at 05:46 UTC
Yes, but I think you missed the question. If you were only allowed to have one Perl book - which would it be? Or to put it another way: which of those listed (or not listed) will give you the most of what you need as a Perl programmer?	[reply]
Re^3: If I could only own one Perl book, it would be: by dwhite20899 (Friar) on May 28, 2006 at 01:07 UTC
While I voted for the Cookbook, I have to give props to "Writing Perl Modules for CPAN" for getting me to write to a rigorous standard. I haven't contributed to CPAN (yet) but it has definitely paid off for me and my coding team.	[reply]

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