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Summary: Great Reference Book (if you know PERL)
Review: I already knew C and learned the basics of Perl from SAMS 'teach yourself PERL5 in 21 days'. I missed a description of the gory details and found it in this book. Great for both reference and learning details of PERL, explained short and skillfull with much humor.
Rating:
Summary: Good Reference Book and Good for Learning too
Review: "Programming Perl" is absolutely one of the best books on programming I've ever read. It is excellent for learning the language and it is a decent reference book too. If you need to use Perl, this is the book to get
Rating:
Summary: Excellent Reference Book - Not a Text Book
Review: I picked this book up because it was the text book for a college class on Perl. The chapter on regular expressions is a God-send for those who haven't ever done any pattern matching. From there, the book maintains the quality of an excellent reference manual.
Several weeks into the course, a couple of us in the class decided to get another book to help learn the ins and outs of Perl. We bought Waite Group's Perl 5 Interactive Course. Using both books, the class created some amazing scripts, icluding a web server.
I particularly enjoyed the humor in this book, especially the references to Star Trek and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. A definite plus!!!
Rating:
Summary: Programming Perl is a must for any web site administrator
Review: Truly the authorotative guide to the most easy to
manage programming language for unix, and recently
Windows NT. Wall & Schwartz provide outstanding
examples of functions, and real Perl programs that
you can try out on your own. The first edition of
this book is what gave me my start in web site programming and has helped me to accomplish many tasks with the web sites that I administrate that I would have not been able to do otherwise. I recommend this book to programmers and non-programmers alike.
Rating: 
Summary: The best book for perl
Review: I would reccomend this book has some minor experience with perl. Like tweaking pre written scripts. You should really try "Learning Perl" if you are new to programming first. This covers EVERYTHING about perl
Rating: 
Summary: Why there are fewer examples in the 2nd edition than the 1st
Review: A couple of readers have commented that
there are fewer examples in the second
edition of Programming Perl than in the
first edition.
This is true. Two entire "cookbook"
chapters were taken out, and will
form the basis of a separate book,
which will be out later this year,
under the title The Perl Cookbook.
The reason we did this was that the
book needed to grow considerably just
to cover, in a reference vein, the new
features of the language. To give
comparable coverage via examples would
make it even longer. So we decided to
split it into two books.
Rating:
Summary: Good, not great, Perl reference
Review: Hey, it's an O'Reilly and Associates book, so you know it has to be good. Nevertheless, I am not so impressed this 2nd edition compared to the 1st edition of this book. The 1st edition has more code examples (highly instructive) and has a much better layout.
If you can get your hands on the 1st edition (covers Perl 4, not Perl 5, but almost all of Perl 4 code works fine with Perl 5) of this book, I recommend reading that one instead. The 1st edition is definitely a "10".
Rating:
Summary: Like eating coffee grounds
Review: This is an extremely condensed book. There are too many footnotes and the humor is obnoxious and frequently gets in the way of learning. However it is an excellent reference although it would be a terrible book for somebody that doesn't know C and Unix well.
Do not buy this book if you aren't already familiar with other programming languages.
Rating:
Summary: The best Perl book I've ever seen
Review: Programming Perl has to be the best Perl book,
and possibly the best programming book I've ever read.
Two days after I picked it up, I was writing useful scripts for my web site (Random image displays, a search engine, and more).
I cannot recommend this book enough. The authors teach powerful concepts, but also write so well that I ended up with Perl scripts in my head almost constantly for about a month.
Rating:
Summary: THE best one
Review: This is apparently the best Perl book I have ever read. It is a complete counter of what the heck we are doing with perl, or at least trying to do with perl. Get one if you don't have one yet. Having this, it is hard to imagin what else they, Larry, will come up with next
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