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Totally agree! The cover is falling off my copy, bought in August 1999, with a dozen page markers hanging out of it. Yes, I have to keep going back, I only get to do 2 or 3 Perl jobs per year typically.<div>jvs<br><br><br><br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:10:54 -0700<br>> From: rise@knavery.net<br>> To: boulder-pm@pm.org<br>> Subject: Re: [Boulder.pm] Roll call?<br>> <br>> On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 at 1:41 PM, foo7775@comcast.net wrote:<br>> <br>> <br>> > With that in mind, I'd be grateful for any pointers to "newb-appropriate" resources where I could work through the rather basic questions. (Probably a safe bet that they'd be a bit annoying to the crowd here...)<br>> <br>> <br>> Not so much a net resource, but the single most useful book for me in learning Perl was Christiansen & Torkington's "Perl Cookbook". I really like that it gave multiple solutions to just about everything and explained their tradeoffs & how they worked. It encourages copy & paste programming a lot less than just googling code snippets and gave me a much better idea of idiomatic Perl.<br>> <br>> —<br>> Kate Lynde<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Boulder-pm mailing list<br>> Boulder-pm@pm.org<br>> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boulder-pm<br></div></div> </div></body>
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