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Re: again, the best perl manual book ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dwight Johnson)
Mon Nov 18 13:56:13 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 10:34:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Dwight Johnson <djohnson@olympus.net>
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cc: Christian PURNOMO <cpurn@ecr.mu.oz.au>, cpurn@cat.cs.mu.oz.au
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On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Sheldon E. Newhouse wrote:
> Well, I'm surely no expert, but there are two O'Reilly books.
>
> 1. Learning Perl
>
> 2. Programming Perl
>
> 1. gets right to the point and shows you how to start
> writing decent scripts almost immediately.
>
> 2. will make you (at least me) study almost each and every page and try
> to construct *your own* examples.
>
> Moral: For beginner (like me), try 1. before 2.
I can certainly recommend 'Learning Perl'. It has an easy to assimilate
style. After that you will still certainly want 'Programming Perl'. It
is a complete language reference.
Dwight Johnson
djohnson@olympus.net
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