Good reading in many ways for many users

I found this book well written and enjoyable. As someone interested in how a team goes about developing a new language, parts of it read like a good NY Times feature. For anyone writing Perl professionally, this is a good heads-up on where their language is going. For introductory Perl users, esp those coming from another language, the Design Philosophy and quick language review sections are very useful for 'grokking' Perl at a high level and then seeing how the pieces fall into place.

Other Reviews

• An excellent source of information on a moving target
• Good reading in many ways for many users
• Serious Perl programmers only
• Parrot ~ .NET ?!