Title: Teach Yourself PERL in 24 hours
Author: Pierce, Clinton
Published by: Sams, Indianapolis
Year: 2002
Date reviewed: 12.02
ISBN: 0-672-32276-5

Phew! Finished it at last! You’d have to be seriously dedicated to work through the 24 chapters in this book at the rate of one hour each, even averaging over the whole thing. But it is good, and by the end I felt I’d got a fair grounding in the basics of Perl. At the end, though, it feels like you’ve run into a cliff – the last couple of chapters dealing with interactive templates are enough to boggle this mind at least. And with an earlier chapter skipping over the whole area of Perl objects, it left me only too conscious of how much I still don’t know (and that includes the last two chapters!). Never mind, the rest of it’s good stuff, and enough to get you happily scripting away in Perl.