in reply to If I could only own one Perl book, it would be:
I voted for Programming Perl
(I've got the 2d edition), despite its information being largely replicated in the man pages. Since I program mostly for Windows, I needed to install Perl before I had access to the man pages; Programming Perl gave me enough useful information to convince me to do that and enough information to get started. I also currently own Learning Perl, which I found to be too basic, Mastering Perl/Tk, which is specialized (and, in my opinion, it could be better organized), and Perl Cookbook, which is handy when I want toemc
"Being forced to write comments actually improves code, because it is easier to fix a crock than to explain it. "
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