Re: [MacPerl] Which Book ?....

[Michael Richardson <mrich@u.washington.edu>]

On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, Jean-Philippe Cote wrote:

> Not many people mentionned it but the book called "Teach Yourself Perl in
> 21 Days" is a really good book for the beginner and it can act as a great
> reference for an experienced user too. The book is not Mac-oriented but it
> doesn't suppose your a UNIX hacker like some other books do. It is a lot
> more user-friendly than both "Learning Perl" and "Programming Perl". Well
> at least this is my opinion. It has been written by David Till and it's
> published by Sams Publishing. It'll cost you about $30 US. For 840 pages,
> it's a great bargain.

I'll add my vote for this book.  I found it *much* easier to learn to
learn Perl from this book than any of the others that I've found so far.
To make it more useful for a Web-drone like myself, it could use a few
more Web-specific examples, in my opinion, but as a generic intro to Perl
it is fine.

> The only drawback is that it doesn't cover much of
> the new Perl 5. But I don't think those who do are legion.

The new version is just out, and is called:  "Teach yourself Perl 5 in 21
days" (ISBN 0-672-30894-0).  This seems to be fairly similar in content to
the older book, but now includes chapters on "References in Perl 5" and
"Object-Oriented Programming in Perl".

Cheers,

Mike Richardson
UW Radiology