Top 10 perl books

Jonathan Stowe jns at gellyfish.com
Wed Apr 23 12:25:52 BST 2008


On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 10:56 +0100, Andy Armstrong wrote:
> On 23 Apr 2008, at 10:23, Stray Taoist wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:34:23AM +0200, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> >> Perl Best Practices
> >
> > Am I the Only One to not like this book?
> 
> 
> Dislike or disagree with?
> 
> I don't agree with quite a few of the BPs but still found it useful to  
> have my assumptions challenged.
> 

Quite so. My dislike of the book springs from the zealots who take the
whole thing as gospel in a completely uncritical manner. In some
quarters it has become a replacement for thought when discussing these
matters.

/J\ 


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