Programming Perl (3rd Edition)

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Summary: Do not but this book!
Review: If you are an Engineer trying to make best use of your valuable time, do not buy this book. I am not joking.

The author/authors wrote massive paragraphs on and on in every chapter. They should have explained what they wanted instead, with an example or two. Examples speak louder than tons and tons of paragraphs. I do not think anyone will have time to read each of those paragraphs. For example, read the chapter on Objects, Chapter 12. I bet the paragraphs in this book and in Chapter 12 will you confused and angry. That is how much unpleasant this book is. I have had a better experience referring to The Perl Cookbook, Perl How to Program by Deitel and Learning Perl. I was able to write better programs in less time by referring to those three books instead of this book. I read Programming Perl for 2 weeks and in the end was angry at myself wasting two weeks of precious time reading through all the crappy explanations and tons and tons of paragraphs in this book.

Get Perl Cookbook, Perl How to Program. These two books will be more than sufficient to help you write Perl Scripts in a very short time.




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Summary: The best book on Perl - but you can't just read it
Review: This is the ultimate perl book - but there's so much in it, you can't just read it. Read "Learning Perl", and the write some perl for a while. Then read the first 14 chapters of "Programming Perl", and write some more perl. Then read the first 14 chapters again, and keep writing Perl. Then move on to the rest of the book.

Also, read Lord of the Rings first - it makes the examples much, much easier to follow.

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Summary: The Perl Bible. And a delightful read.
Review: I learned Perl by reading this book twice. I like this book, it never leaves my desk.

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Summary: you have to put up with a lot of annoying chattter
Review: It is a good book and you can learn a lot. However, the "comedy," which is really just a lot of annoying chatter, get in the way a great deal.

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Summary: oreily perl book
Review: NOT FOR THE BEGINNER TO PERL!!!! I have spent 3 days with this book and do not know much more that i did 4 days ago about perl. It is way over my head and i am a VB programmer. The book is well written for an advanced user, but that wasn't/isn't me.