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Summary: A good start point for Perl!
Comment: Before learning Perl, I have hands-on practise on other programming language. So, I found this book quit good for for Perl starter. However, if you don't have any programming knowledge, you may found it difficuties on starting point. Because this book do not contain enought examples. I think the fastest way to learn programming language is by reading program examples. Maybe the Auther wants you to buy Programming Perl.
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Summary: A start point, but only a start point
Comment: It's a good book for beginners. However, it covers too little of perl, not even references and modules. On the other hand, it says more about the interactions between Perl and other stuff, e.g., files, directories, processes, CGI... which is eonderful and absent from Programming Perl.In a word, Learning Perl is a good start point for Perl programmers. But if you want to go a little further, buy a more serious one, such as Programming Perl.
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Summary: Makes learning this bizarre language even more difficult
Comment: I'm one of the people who doesn't "get" perl. I don't understand the need, the hype or the reason for the inscrutable code. True, the infamous Chapter One is bad enough, as is the lame humor and ego-driven silliness of these sample programs. But I'm skeptical enough (even of my own skepticism) to keep an open mind on these matters. What I was left wondering as I read through this is, why do we need to go through this? What is it that we can't provision with existing tools? What is beneficial about having many ways to do simple things, which only leads to more confusion? Perl code is not easy to read, easy to maintain, nor easy to learn. It all looks a like a regular expression that ate too much spaghetti. Give me a carefully structured language like C, C++ or Java any day. For Unix needs, Bash shell scripts, sed and awk are just fine. Perl is a mess, and this book doesn't make it any clearer.
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Summary: Horrible book for beginners
Comment: This book is NOT for beginning programmers. We are using this book in a Summer School 6 week session and everyone at this point (week 3) : scrambling to come up with alternatives. This book: NOT ENOUGH EXAMPLES IN BOOK. ASSUMES PROGRAMMING KNOWLEDGE. We've already lost 50% of class due to dropouts from being completely confused!
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Summary: Invaluable for a beginner
Comment: If you are starting the perl language you should look no further. Buy this book and read it from cover to cover. When you get to page 100, just before Miscellaneous Control Structures, go ahead and order Programming Perl and Perl Cookbook. It helps to have some programming experience but for a beginner you should be able to tackle perl with these wonderful references guiding you every step of the way. I only started perl a few weeks ago and have been overly impressed with programmer friendly operation.
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