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Programming Perl Second Edition

by Tom Christiansen (Author), Randal L. Schwartz (Author), Larry Wall (Author)

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Programming Perl, 2nd Edition is the authoritative guide to Perl version 5, the scripting utility that has established itself as the programming tool of choice for the World Wide Web, UNIX system administration, and a vast range of other applications. Version 5 of Perl includes object-oriented programming facilities. The book is coauthored by Larry Wall, the creator of Perl.Perl is a language for easily manipulating text, files, and processes. It provides a more concise and readable way to do many jobs that were formerly accomplished (with difficulty) by programming with C or one of the shells. Perl is likely to be available wherever you choose to work. And if it isn't, you can get it and install it easily and free of charge.This heavily revised second edition of Programming Perl contains a full explanation of the features in Perl version 5.003. Contents include:

An introduction to Perl
Explanations of the language and its syntax
Perl functions
Perl library modules
The use of references in Perl
How to use Perl's object-oriented features
Invocation options for Perl itself, and also for the utilities that come with Perl
Other oddments: debugging, common mistakes, efficiency, programming style, distribution and installation of Perl, Perl poetry, and so on.

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The second edition of the Camel Book is more than 600 pages long and full of excellent instruction and sound advice. Topics include all the good stuff from the first edition plus Perl 5 features such as nested data structures (ever made a hash of arrays of hashes?), modules, and objects. From "Howdy World" to making your own modules, this book has it all.

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Programming Perl, second edition, is the authoritative guide to Perl version 5, the scripting utility that has established itself as the programming tool of choice for the World Wide Web, UNIX system administration, and a vast range of other applications. Version 5 of Perl includes object-oriented programming facilities. The book is coauthored by Larry Wall, the creator of Perl. Perl is a language for easily manipulating text, files, and processes. It provides a more concise and readable way to do many jobs that were formerly accomplished (with difficulty) by programming with C or one of the shells. Perl is likely to be available wherever you choose to work. And if it isn't, you can get it and install it easily and free of charge. This heavily revised second edition of Programming Perl contains a full explanation of the features in Perl version 5.003. Contents include: An introduction to Perl Explanations of the language and its syntax Perl functions Perl library modules The use of references in Perl How to use Perl's object-oriented features Invocation options for Perl itself, and also for the utilities that come with Perl Other oddments: debugging, common mistakes, efficiency, programming style, distribution and installation of Perl, Perl poetry, and so on.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; Second edition (October 11, 1996)
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Rak

A Reference Book

Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2000

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This is an excellent companion to the Learing Perl book (also by O'Reilly). If you are new to Perl like I was not too long ago, then start with the Learning Perl book first before you touch this one.
This book is intended to serve as a reference as it tackles the more complicated aspects of Perl. If you start learning Perl with this book, then you will find it a very difficult language to graps. However, I do not want to take anything away from this book. This book is fantastic for those who want to dive into Perl a bit more and have passed the beginners level. I purchased both the books and once I had finished reading the Learning Perl book, I started turning to this book to get a better understanding of things, especially regular expressions.

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sm535

A Classic that Everyone Buys but Nobody Really Reads

Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2013

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Well, if you do not have a copy of this book at your disposal, probably you read 'Perl for Dummies'. That would be a wrong choice, because this book is indeed for dummies. I have asked several people if they ever refer to this book once they know Perl already. The answer always seems to be a resounding 'No'. There is CPAN library reference for searching about a specific library/package function, there is perlmonk.com for all esoteric ways to get help and there is a plethora of web search results that you can always copy.

So why would you buy this book if you are a pro (apart from settling your due to Larry Walls for giving us this great scripting language)? If you know the answer to this question, please share.

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Michael McDaniel

The Definitive Reference

Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2000

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A great mix of practical examples, complete reference, and humor, this books is truly excellent. With this book alone, I learned enough Perl in a week to write very complex scripts. I am confident that anyone with a solid knowledge of structured languages could easily do so as well.

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Dave O'Hearn

useless; will not teach you Perl

Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2000

This book is a reference, nothing less and nothing more. If you already know Perl and want a reference, you might as well get this one. It has a geeky mystique too it and a certain crowd will look up to you for owning it. But that's all it's good for. As a reference, it throws piles and piles of Perl special identifiers, syntax operators, and other stuff in your face without a single decent example. Even a master programmer will not learn Perl from such a presentation, any more than you can learn English from reading a dictionary. To actually learn the language, for those of us who buy books because we hope to learn something, try Learning Perl by the same publisher.

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Y.B.

Badly Organized, but a Great Reference

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2000

The book itself, used as a Reference and for mastering Perl, is a five star book. But there are a quite a few disadvantages:
1. The book is not intended to the ones who have no programming experience at all. The read should be at least an intermediate programmer, because the basic programming concepts of the language (Variables, Subs and etc..) are badly explained.
2. Because of Perl's C Like Syntax, it is recommended that the reader will know C, Awk, or Grep and Some experience in the Unix Environment.
3. The Book itself is badly organized, certain complicated things are shown in examples and explanations, and those things are taught many pages afterwards. For Example: An Example of a perl program is shown on page 10, and that example contains subs and pattern matching, which are taught 100 Pages later!
These are the 3 Main Disadvantages. For Conclusion, if you're new to programming, or want to learn Perl easliy, buy "Learning Perl", but if you're a somewhat experienced programmer, and want to master Perl, this book is the best one you'll find for that purpose.

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joe_n_bloe

A "don't have to" read

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2000

The official reference for the Perl language did not improve in its second generation. The original "purple Camel" is, in my opinion, a true classic where books about programming and programming languages are concerned--I rank it right there with The C Programming Language, Anatomy of Lisp, Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, and so forth. It was a classic because it was filled with lucid expressions of the thoughts of Perl's quintessentially pragmatic creator, Larry Wall. It was a classic because it provided a literate and thoroughly reasoned counterpoint to arguments in favor of more formally based languages and programming styles.
But ... somewhere in the extensive revisions, additions, extensions, and deletions that transformed the first Camel book into this, the second Camel book, the magic went away. And some very suspicious stuff went in. The book lost its digressive, essayic feel and became more of a perfunctory reference work. Additionally, some of the completely new material turned out to be just a little ... strange. The discussion of object-oriented programming based around the term "thingy" just doesn't do it for me. (Ignore all that and read Damian Conway's book instead.)
Preferences of style and tone aside, an unavoidable flaw of an infrequently-updated book like this one is that it inevitably refers to an obsolescent version of Perl. If you want current Perl documentation, you need to read the man(ual) pages that came with that version of Perl. What's in this book is generally but not completely accurate for newer versions of Perl. And because it's intended to be a more or less complete reference covering even small details, it can't help but be dead wrong on some points as the language continues to evolve. Bear in mind, also, that much of the material in this book comes STRAIGHT from the man pages. (Just not the up-to-date versions.)
A third edition is in the works, which will no doubt be at least a temporary improvement. If the newer version restores the insight and charm of the original, it will certainly deserve a place on your programming bookshelf. But as a reference work intended to cover a constantly-evolving language, Programming Perl will always suffer by being out of date.
If you are the type who dislikes reading electronic documentation, by all means, buy a copy of this book. But you'll find that you have to use the online documentation anyway.

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