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Professional Perl Programming
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Author: Aldo Calpini, Arthur Corliss, Juan Julian Merelo Guervos, Chris Nandor, Aalhad Saraf
List Price: $59.99
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ISBN: B0000B0T0S
Publisher: Wrox Press Inc (February, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 1,534,442
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 3 out of 5
very detailed but not easy to read
The book is very detailed and comprehensive, but it is not easy to read and probably not suitable for beginners. Specifically, it does not provide complete examples with inputs, code, and output. There are also plenty of typos and small errors. Still, in all fairness, this is a very comprehensive book with lots of topics not covered in other books. Also the paper is of good quality. Probably every advanced user should go through the book to pick up on things other books leave out.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Highly recommended for a broad audience
This is a very good Perl book! For beginners, intermediates or even advanced programmers in Perl. The book takes you from the basics to advanced applied Perl programming concepts.
The book manages what many others fail to do: It might be the only Perl book you ever need. If you worked through this book, additional information is readily available on the Internet. This book is comprehensive enough to cover everything you need to know about the Perl language to write large scale 'mission critical' applications.
Admitted, if you already own the O'Reillys 'Learning Perl', 'Perl' and 'Perl Cookbook' this book will not contain many news. However, it is written very well and it is understandable, something I cannot always say about the 'original' Perl books or documentation.
If you do web programming, a logical addition to this book is 'Professional Perl Development' which offers lots of good information on how to design sophisiticated web applications.
Rating: 5 out of 5
An excellent book for advanced programmers.
This is an excellent, thorough, fairly advanced book. Until now, I was an o'reilly zealot, clinging to my camel book and my CD bookshelf as the Only True Word. Finally, here is the first real competitor to that series of books, with a fresh approach to the language that shows that the authors really know what they are doing. So far, the book has done a great job covering all my industrial-strength perl questions with _examples that work_ and clear, concise explanations of the methods and the context. I find that the examples are really applicable to my professional needs as a contract perl programmer. There's a great section on object-oriented perl, as well as a good debugging section. IMHO, This is the best perl book out in a while.
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