Learning Perl
In this smooth, carefully paced course, a leading Perl trainer teaches you to program in the language that threatens to make C, sed, awk, and the Unix shell obsolete for many tasks. This book is the "official" guide for both formal (classroom) and informal learning. It is fully accessible to the novice programmer.
On Mac OS X, typing this command into CPAN will fix the make error when installing a Perl module. Found on the CPAN forums.
Here is the error I was getting:
-- NOT OK
Running make test
Can't run test witout successful make
Running make install
make had returned bad status, install seems impossible