Customer Rating:      Summary: Why can't programmers write? Comment: The language, PERL, is hideously syntactically challenged. This book doesn't shed one ray of light on the language.
Customer Rating:      Summary: Corrections to the Detractors Comment: Some comments about the author's "programs of such bad taste" are unfair. Randal's teaching by building a simple program into a more complex program. For clarity, he simply retains the ugly original code and tacks on new features. It's self evident that the program should be re-written, but to do so at that point in the tutorial would be disruptive. Ten is just the perfect score to accord this classic. This book delivers on what the others promise: Perl in XX Days. Thanks to this book, I learned enough perl to get by with, not in days, but in several hours. A couple weeks later, I had completed the book, and was able to read what I had thought were complex perl scripts. END
Customer Rating:      Summary: Just Great, Perl in 250 pages or less! Comment: I think that this book is great for the experienced programmer who wants to learn perl. Hopefully the reader has some UNIX experience and some general C or C++ knowledge, which is not necessary but helps you get through the perl syntax and commands that are similiar to the above mentiond languages. In my opinion the book is a great guide clear and concise, it tought me that perl is a lot less complex than I thought.
Customer Rating:      Summary: educating Comment: This book is not for a beginner to programming, you may want a c/C++ background, it covers Perl, ON A UNIX SYSTEM, gives good introductions, and takes a while to read, you should spend at least 1-2 hours on each chapter. lots of working examples.
Customer Rating:      Summary: comprehensive intro to perl Comment: this is not titled cgi-perl, so don't think only cgi is covered here! includes many short examples that are very easy to understand. good for skimming.
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