I used Perl For Dummies. It's not too bad.

Update:
Yeah Spam, I still use it to look stuff up. After all, I don't use Perl every single day. Plus the syntax is a bit boggling at times.

Well, I can say something about what Spam said about C. There is a whole family of languages that are very much alike, at least at the lower levels. C, Perl, Basic, Fortran, etc. Perl is especially close to C--has a lot of similar syntax. For example, i = i + 1 can be written more or less the same way in all of the languages I mentioned.

However, I disagree with the statement, because there are other families that are completely different. Assembly for example is its own category, and there is a family of AI-oriented languages such as Schema and Lisp. Knowing C will help to learn these, but it's not going to give you too big of an advantage.

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