Start with the greatest books every written:
Programming Perl - https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/programming-perl-4th/97...
Continue with the second greatest book ever written:
Intermediate Perl - https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/intermediate-perl/05961...
Followed by equally amazing book by the greatest programmer in the world:
Higher Order Perl - https://hop.perl.plover.com/
And of course:
Mastering Perl - https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/mastering-perl/97805965...
To get super quick in the command line, also you might want to get my book:
Perl One-Liners Explained - https://nostarch.com/perloneliners
Finally, join #perl on Libera Chat.
AS A NEW USER WE LOVE YOU WITH GREAT HUGE LOVE.
(Also screw all Python programmers, what a bunch of losers with their indenting rules and PEPs. Weirdos. Whenever you hear somone say Python is good or interesting, run.)
Have a look at http://www.learning-perl.com/ where the author (brian d foy) blogs on the updates made.
why should anybody care there is a new version?
Its good to know that there is an updated version of the book. I've never read the book myself but its handy to recommend to friends/clients/etc that I deal with.
And how is this hacker newsworthy?
Not sure but perhaps the upcoming 4th edition of Programming Perl due in October is newsworthy? http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004927
That book is one of the most underrated and overlooked works on the philosophy of programming I've ever read. It's ostensibly about best practices in programming Perl (which some people consider a complex language), but in reality this is a very deep book about the best practices for programming in any language.
Note the above excerpt is pretty much universally applicable no matter what the language. Much of the book is written at that level.
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/programming-perl-4th/97...