From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 6 10:19:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A9E614BD7 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:19:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.1.2] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 111XT9-000HjU-00; Tue, 06 Jul 1999 16:49:15 +0100 (envelope-from ben@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk (ident=ben) by rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 3.02 #1) id 111XTF-0009BP-00; Tue, 06 Jul 1999 16:49:21 +0100 (envelope-from ben@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:49:21 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Gary Kline Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommendations for a perl book? Message-ID: <19990706164921.B35220@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <199907060419.VAA26691@athena.tera.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199907060419.VAA26691@athena.tera.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gary Kline wrote: > The Webster's dictionary port is done, first pass. However it > was originally written ad hoc and needs an overhaul. I want to > rewrite parts or all in perl and would like the lists' recommendations > on a perl book. Comprehensive and for beginners! > > Suggestions? The Camel book (`Programming Perl, 2nd ed') from O'Reilly, to start with. `Advanced Perl Programming' may also be useful. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/advperl/ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl2/ http://perl.oreilly.com/ has a list of other Perl books by O'Reilly. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message