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Summary: A very useful intermediate to advanced level book on Perl.
Review: This book answers just about every question I get in my introductory and intermediate level Perl classes. It was a lot of work, but fun, to write, and I hope the rest of the Perl programmers out there will use and enjoy it.
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Summary: A little more in-depth.
Review: This book covers some cool tricks and tips and more efficient coding than some of the other Perl books. Few books I believe actually add to your knowledge and offer ideas and inspiration. For a Perl book after you've got some experience--or even not--this one's pretty good.
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Summary: The No.1 Perl Book
Review: This book had the most profound and dramatic impact on my understanding of Perl. The sooner you read this book the better! (The only minor drawback I see is that OO part is somewhat sketchy but even then it still contains quite valuable insights.) The thing I like most about this book is the density of useful information. In this respect no other book I've read can overcome Mr. Joseph Hall's achievement. Not even close. "Effective Perl Programming" makes you think about Perl in ways you never thought before. When I read a paragraph about sorting techniques and especially Schwartzian transform (p.49-50) it was difficult to fall asleep. Amazing and inspiring stuff! Programming Perl is not as easy as it seems. This book gives you most tricks of the trade. (The rest one can find in "Perl Cookbook" which I also like very much.) Heartedly recommended. Hope to see other books by Mr. Hall in the nearest future. Not necessarily about Perl!
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Summary: A "must read" for PERL hacker w/ references!
Review: This book is a "must read" for any serious PERL hacker. Joseph explains both practical and stylistic reasons why a programmer should favor a particular notations without duplicating the essential PERL references. This book is likely to be too terse without referring the Larry Wall's Perl Programming. I would highly recommend this book.
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Summary: A good book to learn the tricks of Perl
Review: This book is for someone who has some knowledge of Perl, but wants to understand some more. Don't try to learn Perl from scratch by reading this book.
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Summary: If you read only 2 books on perl, this needs to one of them!
Review: This books glues all the other books I've read on perl into outstanding practical snippets of very understandable code and concepts. A real "must-read."
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Summary: Great Buy
Review: This is a great book for beginners and intermediates. Do you know that a foreach loop is 10% faster than a for loop?. Have you used Orcish Manuever (Wooh !! that sounds fancy :-) ) or schwartzian transform?. we ll if you haven't you should try this book. Even if you are a PERL wizard, you might still want to take a look at this book.
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Summary: Study it, love it
Review: This is an amazing book. It will deepen your understanding of Perl and give you tools you can use to become a power programmer. I use it in two ways: as a quiet study text, and as a reference for particular topics. The sorting section has been particularly useful for me. Hats off to the authors for making a unique contribution to the Perl literature.
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Summary: straight forward and honest
Review: This is an excellent book. It runs through 60 items, through regular expressions, "map", and "grep". Each item describes a concepts and best usage of one of the core concepts of Perl. This may be one of the first technical books I read from start to finish (the very *best* way to read this book of progressive concept development). Reading this book changed my understanding of Perl programming, improved my code (by the first 50 pages), and reduced my programming mistakes. This was also the single most fun technical book I have read. Not comedy, but true delight at finding new ways to use Perl. I can readily believe that Joseph Hall is a successful and popular instructor, if this is an example of his class design.
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Summary: Has What Programmers Need Most -- Examples!
Review: This is one of those books that's basically essential. It consists of a series of one-page pieces of advice, followed by examples of how to use them. (In this way it's similar to Cline's C++ Faqs book, which is also fantastic.) The examples are the sort that show you better ways of doing things, and if you look up all the stuff you don't understand, you'll become an expert quickly. (Contrast this with certain Web books, especially, which are filled with examples that merely parrot what the preceding syntax diagram showed.)
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