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Summary: Perl, How To Program
Review: This book was suggested to me by a colleague for teaching a class in Perl. Until then I had not come across it, so I was a bit skeptical before buying it. As I started making my presentation slides, using this and other books, I realized I was using this book as the basis of my material, more and more. The contents are excellent, examples absolutely fitting the purpose for which they have been used. These make the point clear. The style of the book with the seven design elements, namely, Good Programming Practive, Common Programming Errors, Software Engineering Observation, Testing and Debugging Tip, Portability Tip, Look & Feel Observation and Performance Tips make it a thorough and priceless book. I definitely can see how the book has got multiple 5-star reviews over a short period. Now, even though I have enough books on C++ and other subjects, I am tempted to get the other Dietel books. I would like to give it a 4 and a half star (for it is still not a Bible of Perl), but I give the benefit of the doubt to the book.
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Summary: Great second (or only) Perl book. Very comprehensive.
Review: This books covers a lot. Probably more than any other Perl book I've read. It's a great reference or to fill in the gaps other Perl books left out. I am not new to Perl and I have probably 20 Perl books--and being the Perl freak I am, I buy any additional books that have anything I can read--and this book is one of the top 4 or 5 most read Perl books. It covers a great deal of aspects, if you only get one or three Perl book(s) in total, this one is highly recommended.
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Summary: This one clicked
Review: When I was taking my first PERL class, the textbook was one of the O'Reilly books, but I found I couldn't keep up, so I kept buying PERL books hoping one or two "great" texts would fill in the gaps for me. I wish I had found this book first, instead of last. It clicked with me so well that I use it probably 90% of the time. I have kept all the other books, and occasionally refer to them...but all of the rest combined can't replace this book.
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