What is the best Perl programming book?

I’d recommend reading both Learning Perl [1] and Intermediate Perl [2].





The first will teach you the fundamentals to the point that everything else you need you can learn from reading documentation and articles on the Internet.





If, like me, you find it easier learning from a physical book, Intermediate Perl will give you everything you need to work with objects, modules and complex data structures.





There is another book in the series, the recently published Mastering Perl [3]. I’d certainly recommend reading this book, but I’d leave it a while as it will be most useful when you’ve built up some experience.





There are other books that are useful after you’ve read the first two - The Perl Cookbook [4] gives specific examples of how to solve many problems you’ll come across, and Perl Best Practices [5] will make your programs cleaner and easier to maintain.








Best wishes,


Dave Cardwell.


http://davecardwell.co.uk/perl/








P.S. No, I don’t work for O’Reilly :P

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