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I have found a few "21 Days" books to be good reads, Emacs ITOD, Samba ITOD; However, when I first picked up the Perl ITOD, I found many mistates that really threw me off.

While the mistakes seemed to be very minor in retrospec, to someone who knew NOTHING of perl, these mistakes were colossal.

I'm sure this book has been revised since then, (about one year ago), but I recommend anyone starting *fresh* with Perl to pickup "Learning Perl" aka "the llama book" which is published by O'Reilly.

In reply to Re: SAMS Teach yourself PERL in 21 days by penguinfuz
in thread SAMS Teach yourself PERL in 21 days by OzzyOsbourne

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