“Learning Perl tends to assume in places that you are
running Perl on a Unix system, but I didn’t find that to be much of
a problem. On the other hand, if you’ve never seen a Unix system,
you might find some of the specific instructions in the book
confusing….“
“I think Perl 5 Interactive Course is pretty good, if you like
textbooks. At this stage in my life and Perl knowledge, exercises
and quizzes at the end of each chapter just get in my way; you may
be in a different stage and appreciate them. Interestingly enough,
the Web URL given on the cover of this book is no longer valid. Ah,
well four years is an eternity in Internet time….”
“On the other hand, Perl in a Nutshell, by Ellen Siever, Stephen
Spainhour, and Nathan Patwardhan, is nearly ideal as a quick
reference to the Perl language and modules, but well nigh useless
as a tutorial. This one has the head of a camel on the cover, which
kind of sums it up. It’s worth having if you spend more than a
couple of hours a month writing Perl.”