Customer Rating: 
Summary: Excellent book; highly recommended beginner to intermediate
Comment: I knew nothing about Perl; this book is well constructed and the author's sense of humor makes a somewhat serious subject, pleasant to read. My next book will be "Programming Perl" by Larry Wall which is heavily quoted in this book. Unless you are already very familiar with Perl you can't go wrong with this book.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Good Intro to Perl for Unix hackers only
Comment: There are 2 sets of reviewers rating this book. The first set, who compose the majority of reviewers, are experienced Unix programmers who have used sed, awk, grep and the various Unix shells. For those Unix hackers, this book is a great intro to Perl because it covers the basics of the language quickly and efficiently without belaboring the obvious (or I should say, the obvious to experienced Unix users).The second set of reviewers (of which I am one), who have just about universally panned this book, are Windows or Mac users who had no clue what sed, awk and grep were and then attempted to tackle Perl with this book. For those people, this book is a big mistake. When I was searching for a beginning Perl book, I flipped through the llama book and got confused not only by the first chapter, but with several of the succeeding chapters as well. I learned Perl with Laura LeMay's "Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days" which is a much gentler intro to Perl and also covers Perl in Windows and the Mac. Now that I have some Perl and Linux experience, I went back to the bookstore and started flipping through the llama again, and this time I thought, "Hey this book is really good." Learn from my Jekyll and Hyde experience with the llama: if you are trying to learn Perl and you have previous Unix experience, buy the book. If you don't have previous Unix experence, get something else. I hope this explanation clears up why some people gave this book rave reviews while others ripped it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: great book and easy to read
Comment: It's a great book for starters of Perl. Recommend to anyone who finds reading "Programming Perl" a little daunting. Once you get started, you can always refer to other materials to fine tune your Perl. Highly recommended!
Customer Rating:
Summary: very readable
Comment: This is an excellent introduction to Perl, abundant in explanations and examples. Don't get discouraged by the first chapter: it's hard to read at first, but it's a useful summary after you've read the book.
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Summary: Starting with perl
Comment: This book is perfect if you are just starting with perl. And, about the first chapter, read it fast don't think much... It will be painless. This doesn't mean you don't have to pay atention to other chapters. great book.
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