Perl Programming by Jugal K Kalita of UCCS

Which book is best for learning c++?

If you are not a total beginner looking for a first language to learn programming as such, Bruce Eckel's "Thinking in ..." books are excellent.

The "Thinking in C++" book is available on his website for download:

http://www.mindview.net/Books/

I used "Programming perl" from Larry Wall and Randal L. Schwartz. It is pretty old book, but very good.

Before jumping into Perl, you should have a good look at Python or Ruby.

I used Programming Perl by Larry Wall and Randal Schwartz too. Would definitely recommend it to a beginner.

The Camel book has been the bible for ages.

O'Reilly - Mastering Regular Expressions in Perl,.NET, Java and More, 2nd Edition

or

Programming - Perl - The Complete Reference 2nd Ed

Perl Black book

Learning Perl - Randal L. Schwartz & Tom Phoenix - O'Really

As suggested by many others here, I would recommend "Programming Perl" (By Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant), which is perfectly suited for a beginner in the language as well as in programming in general. It nonetheless gives a very good insight into the language and might be a good "companion" for quite some time.

Now, concerning your second question... Well, if you have the choice, don't go for Perl, it is kind of messy and seems to be superseded in many ways by other languages. I don't know Ruby, which is often cited as a good alternative solution, but I can clearly recommend Python. Better syntax, object oriented... All my friends who made the Journey from Perl to Python were convinced within a week.

I'm not sure about a good book. I've been learning it "as I go" while learning advance techniques in Linux, but generally the most useful thing about Perl is learning it's pregex or Perl Regular Expressions and of course to make fast scripts to automate processes in unix-like operating systems, such as program installation, in-development processes that are repeated regularly etc.

I would recommend skipping Perl entirely and learning Python, unless of course you are required to learn Perl for legacy or job-related reasons.

"Programming Perl" (By Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant)

& "Perl Cookbook"(By Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington) should be sufficient for any one....

and one more thing if one follow any of these books throughly with a little bit of help from web... he can do almost anything.

Hi all,

A very good (and funny) introduction on Perl language is in "Minimal Perl: For UNIX and Linux People" by Tim Maher which describes step by step the basics of this language, from one-liners to scripts. I think it is a better introductory book on Perl than "Programming Perl" or "Perl Cookbook" while both are excellent by the way.

Follow the site give an idea over all features available in PERL,

http://www.tizag.com/perlT/

To proceed from beginner level to higher order follow the site,

http://perl-tutorial.org/

go for HOP (Higher Order Perl) by M. Dominus, is by far the most revolutionary book ever written about Perl functional programming.