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Programming Perl (Nutshell Handbooks)

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This is by far the finest book I've seen on PERL programming, for the beginner and advanced programmer alike. Loaded with references, helpful hints, and code tid-bits, entertaining yet informative, and never too verbose, this is certainly well worth the price.

This book DOES assume you already know how to program. If you're starting completely from scratch, this probably isn't the book for you. But if you know C or some other language and want to pick up perl with just the fundamentals, read the first couple chapters of general info and then just start playing. The function references in this book are great.

The Quick Reference Guide alone justifies the price. Note that in Q3 1996 (or so) the 5.0 version should be out -- many additions.

One of my friend give me this book because I need to make small scripts in PERL. I was absolutely not familiar with PERL and I have sometimes lots of difficulties to understand the examples given. They are not well commented. I often wonder "What is the meaning of this ... hum" You can buy this book if you want a reference, you shouldn't if you are searching something to begin. I am here to order something another book... and will upadte this comment later

Programming Perl, an O'Reilly Nutshell series book, is by far one of the best Perl programming books available. This book has almost everything anyone could possibly want to know about how to do things in the Perl language, commonly used on the World Wide Web. Each chapter is clear and concise and the latter part of the book includes several programs and examples on how to do the most common tasks. The Second Release, available in October, 1996 should be even better with updates to cover the current Perl 5.0 version. This book should be in every Perl programmer's library

This book almost immediately moves to the full essence of Perl programming. Thereby violating all rules of "good writing." The start is VERY difficult to understand. But I stuck to it and read it over and over again, carefully. When I finally understood the first chapter, I understood Perl. Learning the rest was mostly details. So this "immersion" style worked, at least for me. The later editions do not begin this way, so my review applies only to the first edition.