Schwartz Randal, Phoenix Tom
If you're looking for the best way to spend your first 30 to 45 hours with the Perl programming language, look no further. In the pages that follow, you'll find a carefully paced introduction to the language that remains the workhorse of the Internet, as well as the language of choice for system administrators, web hackers, and casual programmers around the world.We can't give you all of Perl in just a few hours. The books that promise that are probably fibbing a bit. Instead, we've carefully selected a complete and useful subset of Perl for you to learn, good for programs from one to 128 lines long, which end up being about 90% of the programs in use out there. And when you're ready to go on, we've included a number of pointers for further education.
