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Summary: THE perl tutorial
Comment: I've been through this book several times. I went through the 2nd edition on my own a couple of years ago when I learned perl. I have since (after a year of hiatus from perl) been through the 3rd edition in a classroom setting. The 3rd edition is much improved in terms of structure and pace. For example, explanation of regular expressions (one of the most powerful features of perl) is expanded into three chapters. On the down side, I would have liked to see a chapter or two covering references and OOP.
The authors are clearly expert coders and have an intimate knowledge of perl. The prose is clear and deliberate, over-simplifying when helpful, but being sure to point you to the details in footnotes. The book is also laced with wry humor that both makes the dryness of such a topic more palatable and serves as an introduction to the quirkiness of "perl culture" in general.
If you are a beginner in Perl, and have some programming experience in another language, this is the one to get. Not a great reference, but a great tutorial.
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Summary: Good Intro, Easy Read
Comment: This is not one of those bloated computer books that you have to read while hunched over a keyboard, taking notes and meticulously typing out the examples.Instead, it's a book that you can casually read and then hack out some some pretty simple but effective programs when you have the time. I read a significant portion of the book on a plane far away from a computer and the concepts and examples stuck well. If you want to learn Perl, grab a copy of this book. It's not a reference book or an exhaustive review of Perl's features, so you'll probably need another source as well - the perl manpage documentation that comes with perl distributions or Programming Perl are both good companions. But ultimately it's a quick read that'll have you writing code in no time.
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Summary: vs. the 2nd Ed.
Comment: i really liked the 2nd Ed. so this 3rd Ed. sould be great... I'm a new programmer and the 2nd Ed. was very useful. I've used BASIC and Visual Basic Script, and Perl seems to be fun to me... I recomend this bood having only read the 2nd Ed. of "learning perl"bart
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Summary: new programmer
Comment: I feel this is a good book for a beginner programmer, one that is interested in having good examples, there is even a cgi programming chaper that is very useful. This is a good book for me, also, I have only used VBScript Programming before, well, also some BASIC in college... Perl seems great to me...bc
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Summary: Good start for the language, catch up in a short time.
Comment: I read this book as I have no previous experience in script, eventhough I know pretty well c, c++. This book is not down to earth like the 21 days book, but not advance either. However, if you keep patience and practice, it will introduce you the language in less than 7 days. Good place to start:) The 21 days book will make you nervous by so many unnecessary details and it doesn't go deep. It has gone through most the basic features of the language like matching pattern, data type, control flow... This is a very good for the beginner who want to learn the language in a short time. It doesn't explain well cgi, and missing oop. But it is a book for the beginner, don't expect everything. The next will be the advanced Perl.
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