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Summary: Not an Inro Programming Book. For Unix Gurus Only.
Comment: I do not understand the high marks this book gets.It is not an intro programming book. It presumes the reader already has substantial UNIX and programming experience. You will learn little or nothing unless you are already versed sed, awk, shell programming etc. Do you know what "@ARGV" is? There is a crying need for a genuine intro Perl book. Written by somebody who does not present Perl knowledge as an esoteric art but rather one which attempts to communicate information. This is not it.
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Summary: With O'Reilly, you can't go wrong
Comment: I bought this book because I needed to learn PERL for CGI work I was doing. This book gave me a GREAT basis for PERL, and also helped me to decipher other PERL scripts that other people wrote. Modifiying these existing scripts is no problem after learning the basic concepts presented in this book. This book does not go too in depth with every in and out of the PERL language, but its not meant to do that... To sum it up.. if you need to start leaning PERL.. this is a very good book to get.
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Summary: Great book to get started -- that's right "Learning Perl"
Comment: I have been trying to learn Perl for months but never gained confidence or had enough enthusiasm to learn dry coding.This book did the magic. The Chapters are small and simple and easy to understand. Of course once you get started you'll need a reference book like "programming Perl". Thank you and God Bless you all
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Summary: A Very Good Introduction to Perl
Comment: This is a very good introduction to Perl. Randal and Tom have done a good job. But it is too simple that developers have to go for other books like "Programming Perl" or "Perl Cookbook" for reference when they are working on real projects!! Great!! If you are new to Perl, you should get one!
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Summary: Great Book. Good for beginners.
Comment: I like the book a lot. I am reading it right now. The thing about the book is it's program codes. I usually figure out how to program by viewing code and using man pages to figure out what the function does. So books with words don't help out that much and books with examples do. If you are someone who can look at something and find the meaning then this is a great book. It's a also a good book for people who will read but that takes longer :-) My only problem is that I wished the book would go a little more in depth to at least intermediate level and call that beginner level and use more examples (code).
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