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I'm in complete about the cookbook. One of the best Perl books I've
ever read and really kicked my knowledge of how Perl works into full
gear. Once you get past some of the examples in there, I'd recommend
Effective Perl Programming
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/">http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/</a>) to learn more about
modern day, idiomatic Perl.<br>
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On 8/21/2012 6:40 PM, Jason Van Slyke wrote:
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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.
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<div>> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:10:54 -0700<br>
> From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rise@knavery.net">rise@knavery.net</a><br>
> To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org">boulder-pm@pm.org</a><br>
> Subject: Re: [Boulder.pm] Roll call?<br>
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> On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 at 1:41 PM,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:foo7775@comcast.net">foo7775@comcast.net</a> wrote:<br>
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> > 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>
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> <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>
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> —<br>
> Kate Lynde<br>
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