Discover Perl 5: With CDROM [Paperback]

Product Details

• Paperback: 456 pages
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764530763
• ISBN-13: 978-0764530760
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,486,164 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this is THE first perl book to buy, January 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Discover Perl 5: With CDROM (Paperback)

Where Learning Perl or Programming Perl gloss over the details important to the beginner, such as reading a file, performing an operation, then outputting to a second file, this book answers the questions that you have when you start. If I had depended on Learning Perl and Programming Perl without this book, as a beginner programmer, I would have been VERY frustrated.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book to get your feet wet with Perl, June 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Discover Perl 5: With CDROM (Paperback)

This book explains the main features of perl in a readable and enjoyable manner. This is not an advanced perl book, but it gives a good overview of regular expressions, basic CGI manipulation and enough syntax to get you started writing perl scripts. For those who do not have the patience to read through the obfuscation characteristic of perl gods, the Barkakatis do a great job jumpstarting you on the learning curve.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Visual and succint: less then 400 pages., February 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Discover Perl 5: With CDROM (Paperback)

The author took less then 400 pages to give a very in depth discovery of Perl 5 while other books took twice as much. There is a section called the discovery center that is like a pocket reference. The book uses lots of visual diagrams to describe esoteric Perl syntax and symantics. For example the description of the @_ system variable is most simple and complete comparing to several other books.