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- From: nall@ibm12.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: Re: Followup: Suggested reading
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- Date: 17 Dec 92 14:16:08 GMT
- References: <1goik4INNilh@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
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- In article <1goik4INNilh@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> holland@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Rich Holland) writes:
- >About a week ago, I posted the following to comp.lang.perl:
- >
- >] Anyone have any suggestions about which books/articles/papers I should be
- >] reading as a beginning perl programmer?
- >] to comp.lang.perl in a week or so.
- >
- >I only got one response, from stevel@autodesk.com:
- >
- >> The best reference around is:
- >>
- >> Programming Perl
- >> Larry Wall and Randal Schwartz
- >> O'Reilly & Associates
- ...
-
- Since I didn't do a response, I suppose that I should not put in my two cents
- this late in the game :-) but will anyway.
-
- The best reference around is the perl manual (perl.man) which comes with the
- source. The book "Programming Perl" is great to read in order to understand what
- it is that the perl manual is telling you. Once you have the manual-reading down,
- however, perlman is the best reference (IMHO).
-
- By the way, a sincere tip of my cap to those early Perl programmers who *only*
- had perl.man to use. I tried it in the early days, and found it to be a bit too
- cryptic (so went to ICON instead for text manipulation). However, having now gone
- through the Camel book (which certainly has its faults!), I use only perl.man for
- reference.
-
- John Nall
-
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