[thelist] perl/CGI reference

Martin martin at members.evolt.org
Sat Aug 25 11:54:32 CDT 2001


John Handelaar wrote on 25/8/01 2:21 pm

>> If you're going to get a book, the only sensible option is O'Reilly's
>> "Programming Perl", which is written by Larry Wall, the creator of Perl.
>
>For a beginner, 'Programming Perl' might as well be written
>in Sanskrit.  'Learning Perl' on the other hand is pretty good,
>and it comes in 2 flavours (normal and Win32).

The intro's pretty good too - it really helps you understand where
Perl came from, and therefore *why* it's so good at text processing.

Cheers
Martin

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