Learning Perl

[Andrew Wilson]

Hi Patrick

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 11:45:45PM +0000, Patrick Dempster wrote:
> I've been playing around with perl for a while but I am still finding the 
> syntax a bit strange (coming from a assembly/C/Java/VB background) and I'm 
> wondering if you guys can point me in the right direction for beginners 
> tutorials / books.

I'm going to be boringly predictable here[0] and recommend
Learning Perl[1] which is published by O'Reilly & Associates.  The
second book that you should read is also published by O'Reilly it's
Programming Perl[2].  These are the quintessential perl books.

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl3/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl3/

Good online reasources, you should check out www.perl.com

cheers

Andrew

[0] For anyone who knows perl books anyway
[1] More commonly known as the lama because it has a picture of one on
    its cover
[2] the cammel (see[1])
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leaving some scope for others to recommend other stuff.