Customer Rating: 
Summary: Best Book for Perl Beginners!
Comment: If you want to learn perl fast and still learn efficient perl programming this is the book! You can easily read it in two weeks and by then you are able to write CGI scripts or whatever you want. The author writes in a humourous style, so a sense of humor is essential. Also read the foreword by Larry Wall (inventor of Perl), it is sooo funny :)
Customer Rating: 
Summary: A five but for the typos
Comment: This is an excellent book for a beginning programmer and even for an experienced programmer who is new to Perl. Readers benefit from examples and exercises, where they learn everything from Perl's general syntax to the nuances of file handling. There is also a very good chapter on CGI programming with Perl at the end of the book. We find that the students in the introductory CGI scripting/Perl class we offer at WestLake Solutions prefer it to the more advanced Programming Perl. I would have given this book a five-star rating had it not been for the mass of typos throughout the book.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Yes; typos are a drag, but...
Comment: Yes; the typos are a drag but this is an impingement upon the editors and publisher rather than the authors. This is the only aspect keeping me from giving this one 5 stars. O'Reilly needs to quit resting on their laurels and get their part of the job done. As far as the text goes, the authors' approach is excellent. I have no previous experience with Perl and minimal with Unix, yet am able to follow along comfortably. Criticisms of the examples as being "egotistical" must stem from narrow minds unable to see the forest through the trees as they do their job of illustrating the concepts exceptionally well. To summarize, I really like this book. And now I must get back to reading it;-]
Customer Rating:
Summary: Very cool ... encourage to buy it ...immediately .
Comment: I am junior student in Istanbul University . My major branch stand as PC-Based Computer Engineering so I had to learn something cool gives me the ability to deal with fill-in forms over the Web . I can say it is the most simple book explains the basics of arguments , functions , and CGI programming under Perl . Note: Almostly everything can be done with Java also possible with least code , short time and effort . Notice that Perl Language stand as a Platform independent . Simple , powerful , and strong way to learn it achieved by buying this book .
Customer Rating:
Summary: icing on the cake...
Comment: overall, the book was easy to understand, but i was really annoyed by the myriads of typos and mistakes that are in the book which suggests a lack of care. so the icing on the cake was missing...
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