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Summary: good only for beginners
Comment: This book is an overview of perl and doesn't cover a lot of features.You will need to buy another book later.So I reccomend spending a few more bucks ang getting a book that covers the basics but also more advanced features
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Summary: It got me going
Comment: Let me preface my mentioning that I am a
professional c,c++,unix,AWK programmer
(Not to toot my horn, but to give the reader a
point of reference).
I stared reading at 10:00, an was writin' some
small programs by 11:00. It had a lot of
simple, but useful examples (I don't mind if the
author uses his/her name in examples,
Kind of makes it a little more personal)
I have read many BAD computer books.
This is not one of those. I was able to learn
from this book, and that gives it a
BUY IT in my book. (I enjoyed it)
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Hit
Comment: Randal's book is the first thing one should purchase for learning Perl (hence the title.) His style is light but informative and he tells you the things you *need* to know. I made the mistake of starting with Larry Wall's "Programming Perl" (another essential book but has the power to ward off neophytes!) and realized I had to Do-re-mi it and "start from the very beginning....a very good place to start."
If Randal comes out with a new edition which covers the greatly revised version 5 I'll bump the rating up to 9.5!
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Summary: You have no choice but become an expert Perl Programmer.
Comment: I had to learn Perl in a big hurry to keep my job. Now I am a
web expert with Perl being my favourite. This little, simple and
easy to read book is still my favourite, and has been borrowed
by most of my friends. This book is undoubtedly a "winner".
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Summary: Learn the most widely used scripting langauge for the Web!
Comment: Perl is the most widely used scripting langauge for the World Wide Web and Randal L. Schwartz is a wiz when it comes to providing clear consise explanations for this coolest of langauges. If you are serious about configuration management, or getting data from forms on the World Wide Web, you owe it to yourself to start Learning Perl with this great guru!
For sanity's sake though, skip chapter 1 until after you've read through chapter 7.
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