Worth saying: this is not another minor update of Wrox's <i>Beginning Perl</i>. There have been a number of revisions of Simon Cozens's Perl 5.6 (5.8?) era <i>Beginning Perl</i>, but this is a completely new book (other than the title). Cozen's original version is already available freely online[1], for what that's worth.<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/" rel="nofollow">http://www.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/</a>