I, by pure luck alone, happened across this book early in my career, and I still go over it from time to time. I will probably die with it in my "keep forever" library.
Ha! Me too! I asked a librarian at my university to fetch me "whatever they had on Perl" (this was my first incursion into the interpreted language world) and the librarian came back to me with this. Imagine my surprise when I started reading the book over the weekend (only then I noticed the title said 'Pearls' not 'Perl').
Forward 10 years, I have a copy in my bookshelf and read a chapter every now and then just to keep myself real. I've completely (and happily) forgotten everything about Perl though.
whenever I'd seen this book mentioned in 'best programming books' lists, on Stack Overflow and the like I'd figured it was a cutely named book to do with Perl and skipped over it.
