Anyway, I was curious, the "UNIX System" book mentioned that Perl is a good programming language to use for scripting, but it does not explain why. What are some good books for beginner through advanced scripting? I poked around amazon.com and the user reviews are generally useless.
"OO Perl", by Conway is pretty much a great book. The first few chapters give you an overview of the language, then it eases into the OO stuff. The fact that Conway wrote the Perl5 OO stuff is hardly worth mentioning, of course... Even if you aren't going to be writing large projects which typically necessitate OO, it'll still give you a definitive work on writing libraries for your scripts.
I didn't much care for "Learning Perl", and I use the Camel ("Programming Perl") mainly as a reference. "Perl for System Administrators" was a decent attempt, if I remember correctly.
"The Pragmatic Programmer", Hunt and Thomas, will be of use to anyone actually working on real projects. Great book.
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