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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: How to Learn Perl?
Message-ID: <1990Sep22.103545.16583@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 22 Sep 90 10:35:45 GMT
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In article <1990Sep21.101713.15459@cbnewsh.att.com>, shun@cbnewsh (shun.cheung) writes:
| I am new to this group and would like to learn Perl.
| What is the best book or manual around? Please follow up
| or send e-mail to me directly. Thanks in advance.

Dare I say? :-)

The best manual around is the *only* manual around... what you get
when you type "man perl".  It's roughly 71 troff pages.

It will soon have some competition; the 275-page draft (not including
index, toc, or front matter) is sitting within arms reach here at my
cubicle...  I just made what I hope is the next-to-last edit pass on
"the book".

There are also some wonderful reference cards and texinfo files.
Someone else will have to holler about their own availability.  I've
been too busy hacking this one (with Larry) to remember just now where
they are.

And then, there's always this newsgroup. :-)

print "Just another Perl [book] hacker,"
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