Title: Most used Perl book on my shelf
Product review: This book covers all the important core constructs in Perl and gets you started writing real programs very quickly. The chapters are concise and easily readable. It took me about two weeks to work through Chapters 1-13 and 19. After that, I knew enough Perl to hack around my Windows NT box.Each chapter ends with a few appropriate exercises. Although the exercises are brief and easily accomplished, they demonstate the important concepts covered in the chapter. After working through the exercises, you will have working examples (that you coded) illustrating common control structures, I/O, regular expression use, file and directory manipulation, and so on. I learn coding best by doing, not by reading. It's only after working through some code that you really will begin to understand how Perl, or any other language, works.I have a handful of Perl books on my shelf, but I use Learning Perl and the Perl Cookbook most often. I hardly ever find myself in the camel.
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