Re: [MacPerl] beginner needs book recommendation and advice

["Peter R. Wiley" <prdesign@sunlink.net>]

>Best Books:
>
>  Learning Perl, by Larry Wall (father of perl), Randal Schwartz, and Tom
>  Christensen. See http://www.oreilly.com/perl

This is a good book.  I used it to teach myself perl after several years of
not programming (my last programming was done in M$ structured BASIC for
the Mac which will give you an idea of just how many years ago).  In a
couple of weeks I was writing CGIs that did what I wanted them to do (for
the most part).

Be aware, however, that even the 2nd edition has some typos that can lead
to confusion.  Some have expressed harsh reactions to the first chapter
which embellishes a simple program to demonstrate features of the language,
but I found it an useful overview.

For a starting place to find information about perl CGI, I have found
WIRED's www.webmonkey.com helpful, although I have noted a deemphasis of
Perl there over the last month or so in apparent favor of Java.







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