[ale] Perl guide

[Terry Lee Tucker]

Fletch wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "James" == James Kinney <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> writes:
> 
>     James> www.perl.org is the main perl site. There is documentation
>     James> there.  However, the best starting book is the "camel"
>     James> book, "Learning Perl".
> 
>         _Learning Perl_ is the Llama, _Programming Perl_ is the Camel.
> Get your spitting beasts of burden straight. :)
> 
>         The former is an introductory text (but it's still aimed more
> towards those with some programming experience (with C or sh/awk/sed)
> than the total non-programmer), the latter is more of a reference.
> 
>         Also check out:
> 
> http://www.netadventure.net/~sburke/bounce.cgi/pub/perl.html
> 
>         For more books and other pointers on getting started with
> perl.
> 

I have the O'Reilly books. In addition, I found a book called "Perl 5
HOW-TO" very helpful. It is full of examples geared toward solving
everyday problems with perl. I have used it many times. The ISBN is:
1-57169-058-1.
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