Title: Programming Perl
Author: Larry Wall and Randal L Schwartz
Publisher:O'Reilly & Associates
Published:1992
Genre: Fact/Learning
ISBN:0-937175-64-1

Larry Wall is the "creator of perl" if one can put it that way. This book is old, so it doesn't give the newest way of doing things, but all in all it is a good reference, it covers up to perl4.

This book uses simple examples. Larry Wall made such a good impression that I WANTED to learn it, not because of him but because it seemed fun, it seemed as if he had fun making perl.

The book is done in a slow "build as you go" fashion:
let's start with :
small program...
add a feature...explain feature...new program listing...
add a few more features, explain them, new program listing so on, in programs that actually can be of use.

"Programming perl" has some advantages though, it does things the old way, now this isn't necessarily a bad thing, sometimes you want to avoid using external libraries and so forth, and do for instance raw socket access without a lot of interferences.

This book is good if you are starting out in perl.
If you’re like me, and want a good solid base to stand on, read this book.