Perl Cookbook, Second Edition

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Summary: Not well organized for a beginner, but covered well
Review: The book explores perl is all possible ways. While doing so, the author jumped around, all over the book. For a beginner, I won't recommend this book, but very good one if you have some experience

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Summary: Finally, the book I've been looking for!
Review: After many years of searching, I finally found the perfect instructional guide to making artificial pearls. This book is a great "how to" on everything from raising oysters to harvesting the pearls themselves. In no time I had high quality pearl specimens ready for sale. Black pearls, white pearls, big pearls, small pearls. It was easy to do and fun!

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Summary: The book was not at all organized. Not very good.
Review: I have been to seminars where Tom has spoke and enjoyed his presentations very much. I found the literature he gave out on last years LISA conference was which was only ~180 pages was more informative. I thought the book jumped around too much and did not give complete enough examples/explanations.

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Summary: problem > search index > find solution with example: great!
Review: If you do not want to learn Perl in depth, but just solve every-day problems in a fast, easy and effective way, this is the book for you. The code samples are normally short and always give the answer, you looked for (or at least, a very useful hint). Very interesting are also the introductions to the main chapters.

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Summary: An Excellent "Real World" book
Review: Have this book near you whenever you are programming Perl. It's an excellent "How To" for intermediate to advanced Perl programmers. Well organized, concise, clear. Very few technical errors. My one complaint would be that many of the examples use Perl modules when they don't really have to- I would prefer knowing how to do many things the hard way (but also know the easy way).

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Summary: excellent reference
Review: This is a very nice book and recommend to every hands-on developer writing standard and high quality perl scripts. It is very well organised and easy to refer for specific topics as well. Most of the topics come with sample code.

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Summary: Great book for the Perl "struggler"
Review: If you are like me and have read FAQs, READMEs and the like this book definately gets you over the hump on learning Perl. Learning Perl and Programming Perl were very good books to follow, but this book gets you on your way quickly. This is a very good reference for the many facets of Perl that can't be found through ordinary channels. It is a MUST read for beginner and intermediate Perl programmers.

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Summary: great book - fills in all the gaps, and educational
Review: Yep, definitely the best Perl book; maybe even the best O'Reilly book. I made quantum leaps in my grasp of Perl after buying this one. You might suspect it would just give you code to use for specific tasks, but the discussions included with each recipe really flesh it out - so you actually learn concepts from the book. Start out with "Learning Perl" though - this is not really a book for a complete novice.

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Summary: Practical book for Pratical Answers
Review: This is an excellent book! I came into a new job and needed to learn PERL asap. Knowing other programming languages I didn't think it would be too bad. I bought this book and I found all the answers I needed! They have solutions to almost all the problems or questions you will encounter! A MUST have for all PERL programmers.

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Summary: Excellent practical examples/solutions. Highly recommanded.
Review: This is by far the best Perl book you can buy today. This should be a companion to Programming Perl, which is basically a manual and 90% of it is free, and verbatim at perl.com. This book contains what Programming Perl has left out, practical examples (like the previous edition of the book). A lot of the problems/solutions are in the Perl FAQ, but the book goes into detail explainations, the whys, hows, and alternative solutions, etc. There are numerous bugs in the examples, but that's Ok as long as you get the gist of the matter. I wish it has more examples, or maybe a volume II.