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Summary: a masterpiece
Review: "Effective Perl Programming" is a *very* useful book, well-written, with transparent examples. It is recommended for intermediate and beginner programmers. My scripts indeed started to run (and look) better after using just several of the numerous techniques described in this book! "Effective Perl Programming" occupies the niche left previously empty in the Perl literature. It is different from its closest counterpart, "Perl Cookbook", in the following aspects. "Effective Perl Programming" describes a smaller number of very highly versatile techniques. Also, the small format, modular structure and clear style of "Effective Perl Programming" allows one to read it anywhere, in addition to using it as a great desk book.
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Summary: good book, but i really don't use often
Review: A fantastic book, if you are an ex-newbie it's perfect, a lot of tricks for your fast improvement. The most useful stuff is the regex one, if you don't want to be an expert it gives you useful suggestions (if you want to be a regex expert, there are better books!). It's not expensive, it's not a big book, you can live without it but if you really LOVE perl, and you are a maniatic of details, you won't find a waste of money buying this one.
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Summary: Awesome !
Review: A must-read of every serious Perl hacker - if you ever thought that those "neat hacks" you're inventing in the heat of coding are only yours - be ready to find them all in one of the issues .. But you should be familiar with all basic materials before reading it as author intentionally doesn't explain the simple things. Happy coding and thanks to Joseph for this outstanding work !
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Summary: Great Book! - Gives some nice solutions
Review: After 4 years of (ongoing) perl programming, this book taught me a lot of new stuff. It will give tips & tricks, it will explain some under-the-hood perl mechanisms and it acts as a nice introduction into perl topics you would otherwise never dive into (tieing hashes, OO-style programming, XS )
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Summary: Good tidbits, and quite a few of them
Review: Another in the "Effective [insert language] Programming" series, this is probably the best Perl book in my library. It goes beyond the typical refrence book, in that it will show you the best constructs to use in given situations. It differs from the "Cookbooks" in that the examples are generalized, so it is geared more for those who are knee deep in perl code already, rather than the beginner. The sections on loops and sorts are worth the price of the book alone.
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Summary: excellent
Review: As a previous reviewer said, this isn't a book for advanced perl programmers. For intermediate users, however, it is excellent. No time wasted covering the perl basics, just lots of useful tips and hacks
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Summary: Brilliant, the second best perl book yet written
Review: Aside from Conway's magesterial "Object-Oriented Perl," this is clearly the best book on perl yet written. It serves as an introduction to the most successful and wide-spread of the dialects of perl, and teaches idiomatic perl better than any other text available. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. If you're stuck using perl, and you know the syntax and a few of the more rudimentary tricks, this book will make you comfortably expert in the language. Highly, highly recommended.
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Summary: Improve your Perl coding!
Review: Before reading this book, my Perl coding was verbose and inefficient, but it still got the job done. After reading this book, I still get the job done but in an efficient and concise manner. I honestly cannot believe how much I have improved, since reading this book. It is well written and fun to read. Full 5 stars for me.
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Summary: Getting to the next level
Review: Being relatively new to Perl (and programming in general), I found this book extremely helpful in putting many of the useful features that I missed in the Camel book into a more digestable format. It provides the beginner/intermediate Perl programmer with the techniques and tricks used by the experts. 'Effective Perl Programming' is an absolute must for anyone who wants to get serious about Perl.
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Summary: Well written, useful guide for beginners and intermediates
Review: Effective Perl Programming is a concise, well written guide that is packed with useful Perl tips. The book is a series of "Items" (in the same style as Effective C++) that are each a tip about how to use Perl. Each tip is accompanied by a detailed description that discusses the pros and cons or each tip and several examples. The tips are then arranged into sections such as "Regular Expressions" and "Object Oriented Programming". In a relatively small book the authors manage to present an enormous amount of helpful information. This book is a worthwhile purchase if you are a new or intermediate Perl developer. The tips presented here will really help improve your code. However, if you have been working with Perl for a while then this book isn't worth the money. There might be a tip or two that you don't know, but chances are you know most of what is presented.
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