Which book to learn Perl from?

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Hoolios

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I've read Learning Perl and am currently about half way through Intermediate Perl. Which would be a better book to buy next, Mastering Perl or Programming Perl?
 
Well, you need to have a copy of Programming Perl, because it's Larry's book and the major reference for the language.

I would stick with the order of the tutorial books and get Mastering Perl.

One other book I'd like to suggest: Damien Conway's "Object Oriented Perl." Very thorough, a little dated now, but the content is still valuable. You might find a used copy cheap, get the 1999/2000 edition.

Conway also did a book for O'Reilly called Perl Best Practices. Great book on programming style and other helpful stuff for Perl.
 
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