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Summary: Good Perl Cookbook
Review: This is not the book you need to read page by page. For my own experience, whenever I find the Perl tasks I need to work out, I would look up this book as the reference. Very comprehensive book provide almost every Perl application in different aspects. Becasue this is not a stand-alone book, you need to buy another Perl book for cross reference. Worth buying.
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Summary: A Fantastic Book for Perl Programmers of All Levels
Review: The idea of the Perl Cookbook was to give programmers of all levels ideas and techniques to improve their programming skills. This is a rather grand undertaking, yet I must say that this book really does the job well.Each chapter focuses on a particular aspect of Perl (such as arrays, hashes, or CGI) and presents "recipes" of various levels of complexity to do various tasks. What is most impressive is that these recipes are geared toward real-life problems that Perl Programmers face. I can testify to the usefulness of this book because I find myself referring to it again and again when I need to do something in Perl I am not already familiar with. I truly believe that every serious Perl programmer must have this book whether for work or for home use. It is truly indispensible for nearly every kind of Perl programming issue you might encounter.
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Summary: Great 'how is that done again' book for Sys Admins
Review: I'm a System's Administrator and often have to write perl code. I have been coding in perl for a while but not often enough for me to remmember everything. This book is great for remmembering techniques.
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Summary: absolutely useful
Review: This is actually one of the best perl book I ever acquired.
We are a group of professionals working on the field, and this book is regularly missing from the shelf.
It is very quick and easy to find simple solutions to common problems.
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Summary: Examples run the gammett
Review: After reading "the camel book" I was looking for a source for examples. I thought that the camel bookw as a good desktop reference, but that it didn't provide me with enough examples for real-world applications. I was building a Perl CGI database for a course project and found the examples on DBM, file locking, and CGI as great jumpstarts. I just wish that the author could have gone into greater depth on some of the subjects. Otherwise, great for a quick "How-to" reference.
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Summary: Useful for those who don't program Perl every day
Review: I get busy at work. Sometimes months pass before I get a chance to do someting fun in Perl. That's where this book comes in. Gets you back up to speed in a couple minutes. It saved me alot of time. Your boss will be impressed. He won't care if you came up with all the algorithms or got them from this book. He will care that you got it done fast. This is a must-have book for intermittent perl hackers. It's on my shelf with some other excellent O'Reilly books.
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Summary: my favorite computer book
Review: This is easily the most useful computer book I've used. I refer to the Cookbook constantly, and it shows--the binding has come undone and the cover is falling off. I would actually recommend purchasing this before Programming Perl, and after Learning Perl. The recipes provide quick solutions to common problems, but each recipe (and each chapter) includes a tremendous amount of background information and gloss. The wisdom of this approach is especially apparent if you take a look at the recently released PHP Developer's Cookbook. Buy it.
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Summary: A bit like Meyers, perhaps
Review: Coming from C++ to Perl, I consider this book as quite excellent. It has a bit of same 'feeling' than Meyers's 'Efective C++' (At least the 1992 edition) but the overall structure is more concrete. After mastering the 'Lama' and 'Camel' I have a feeling that this is actually the book that gets the things together. If you learn from examples of code, like I do, this book is for you. However, a caution. THIS IS NOT THE FIRST BOOK YOU SHOULD READ ABOUT PERL. No way. For that, read the 'Lama' and then 'Camel'. But after mastering the basics in those books, on the level that you do not need to peek for books to implement common tasks, then go for this. Also, I consider this book much more practical than Orwant's, Hietaniemi's etc. 'Mastering Algorithms in Perl'. However, to be honest, after the faculty of computer science of Helsinki University (YES. The home of Linux, among other things) removed the cumlaude course for Perl I just might have a little grudge against the faculty (Not against Hietaniemi, however, the keeper of CPAN and the designated lecturer of Helsinki's Perl course).
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Summary: Most useful Perl book in existence
Review: This is my favourite Perl book. Read the first two sections of Programming Perl, any section that deals with references, skim the rest, and start browsing the Perl Cookbook. The presentation of the varied problems and their solutions is wonderful and instructive. Most programming professors in college are neither as good at instruction, nor as pragmaticly helpful. If all you want is a book to swipe code from, don't bother; most of the book will be just extra weight. All the free code you want is on the net. Get this book, but get this book because with each problem and solution set is a discussion of why the solution works, other solutions that are possible, and when to look toward a more robust and/or complex answer. Each chapter has ten or twenty pages that are dedicated to the programming bailiwick the chapter explores. The answers are well commented, and syntatic suggar is explained. The writing is not terribly dense, and a good sense of flow is maintained through out the book. This is one of the few technical books I own that I can just sit down and read for hours on end w/o getting bored or loosing steam. I cannot praise this book enough. My copy is dog-eared, looks like it's been through a bad land war in SE Asia, and has tiny yellow post-its with titles marking sections I found particularly interesting or useful. With The Perl Cookbook, Programming Perl, Effective Perl Programming, Advanced Perl Programming, and Mastering Regular Expression (ack.), there are few situations a programmer can't handle. Buy this book, NOW!
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Summary: The most usefull book when i write perl program
Review: The most usefull book when i write perl program,it's a solution for perl programming,both good toturial and reference
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