Reddit mentions of Learning Perl, 5th Edition

I learned from this book. However, it was a much older version.

The thing I like about this book is that it shows you how to actually write things in Perl. When I first started to write Perl, it was not pretty; True it was Perl, but it written like C. I didn't fully embrace all the great language features and syntax that Perl offers you as the developer.

Check out CPAN and /r/perl.

The other great thing about this book is that it tells you what Perl, as a language is really good at. In addition to showing you what Perl is good at, the book alludes to what Perl may not be so good at.

Like ElCapitanMarklar said, don't get too carried away learning Perl if you don't need for your prospective internship.

If you just want to learn Perl, do it. Perl is an all-around neat language and can be a blast to work with.

My undergrad research is heavily involved with perl. I pretty much learned all the basics during my winter break using books. Perl is really easily to learn especially if you have some programming experience.
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But I think i learned more from Perl using this book llama book

Enjoy! I know I love Perl even with its bad rep CS people give it (I'm taking a Java course and everyday I say... man in Perl it's soooo much easier than this)

I have several shelves of programming books that I purchased while a dirt-poor student. I like books.

However, I found it frustrating that I had to read a book about Perl to understand what was going on - $_ made it so every function looked like it was operating off no input and assigning the result to nothing.

As a contrast, I started working in Python after 10 minutes of cheatsheet. That's not to say I knew everything about the language - I learned quite a bit more after that, and continue to learn - but rather that it allowed me to use my prior programming knowledge to quickly start getting things done.

You should at least be able to read both languages, given their popularity.

About 10 years ago I met a kid online who was at school majoring in something CS-ish. I don't recall the specific school or exact major, but it involved development. He seemed to be having sort of a mid-major crisis because he felt like he was only learning how to use tools without understanding the underlying concepts. To me, it felt like he was on the brink of giving up and switching to something non-technical. So, that Christmas, Santa-by-way-of-bookpool.com dropped off a box containing A Book on C and Learning Perl. It might not be a monumental gesture on my part, but I still feel pretty good about it.