Re: [SLUG] Perl Books

[Matthew Dalton <matthewd@nospam.research.canon.com.au>]

It's still O'Reilly, but the Perl CD Bookshelf is pretty good value if
you don't mind reading it on your computer (you could always print bits
out). You get 6 books on cd (Learning Perl, Learning Perl on Win32,
Programming Perl, Advanced Perl Programming, Perl Cookbook and Perl in a
Nutshell) plus a dead-tree version of Perl in a Nutshell. The cost is
slightly less than the cost of the dead-tree versions of Learning Perl
and Programming Perl combined (can't remember exactly... about $130 I
think).

The license is good, too. It allows you to make as many copies as you
like, as long as you're the only one using them. So you can copy it to
your work PC, home PC, laptop etc... Plus it's in simple HTML, so it
works in just about any browser.

I found the books themselves to be pretty good, although I haven't read
them all yet. Unfortunately though, I can't compare them to any other
publisher's Perl material.

Matthew

Matt wrote:
> 
> So can anyone recommend an alternative source of geek books other than
> OReilly or is the price really worth ORA content ?
>
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