Perl Best Practices by Damian Conway
October 3rd, 2005 by HenOne of my current books at the moment is Damian Conway’s Perl Best Practices. I’ve been trying to play with Python more recently, but this book jumped into my arms from the first moment I saw it at the bookshop. Conway is a great author (his OO Perl book was a great read too), and after only 100 pages this is already the 2nd book any budding Perl programmer should read after Learning Perl.
Even if you’re more experienced with Perl, read this book. I suspect the rest of the book will be as good as the first 100 pages have been, lots of tiny tidbits of Perl information and for those of use who don’t use the various libraries as much as we should, lots of information on the useful libraries that out there.
Plus he slips various Perl 6 libraries that can be used already in.