Sams Teach Yourself Perl 5 for Windows NT in 21 Days

This book is a very quick and organized way to get up and going in Perl. By the end of day 7 (day seven will take more than a day if you do it right) you will have a good Perl foundation. I have the Camel book that I go to from time to time (Camel has more humor and more technical content), but I use this book as my primary reference because of it's easy layout.If you serious about Perl, also buy the Camel book as a deeper secondary reference.

This book is better organized than Larry's famous book and it is easier to find information in it.It is a great reference work and tutorial.

I needed to learn a language to do some complex text processing very quickly. A friend suggested that Perl was a good language so I picked up this book. I have been programming for about 20 years and I learned to write Perl from this book in about 4 hours and wrote the code I needed. It continues to be an excellent reference book and I carry it with me whenever I think I will have to do some advanced text processing or file manipulation. Excellent book!

Teach Yourself Perl 5 for Windows NT is the perfect place for anyone who wishes to learn Perl 5 for Win32 to start. With its comprehensive, step-by-step style, I was already programming Perl programs on my own on only Day 7! Additionally, whenever there was a place in the book that may change in the future, or where the reader might want to get more information about a certain topic, the author recommended books to read, and even gave web addresses, and the URL that an address may have changed to. And don't let the Windows NT part of the title fool you --- I run a Windows '95 system, and learned about only minor handicaps while both reading, and programming. Anyone who wants to learn Perl 5 for Win32 in 21 days, this book is where to start!

Most of what this book says about Windows NT works also for Windows 95, and the book is precise about the differences. The section on writing one's own clients and servers is marvelous. It is all clear. It all works. (This is in contrast to the documentation included in the Perl 5 download.