Perl Cookbook, Second Edition

Object Oriented Perl : A Comprehensive Guide to Concepts and Programming Techniques

Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules

Perl Books

Network Programming with Perl

Format: Paperback
Author: Lincoln D. Stein
ReleaseDate: 27 December, 2000
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Rating:

Excellent
This is one of very few books that the author really takes time, has a good plan to write a book and have good understanding of the subject. This book is excellent.

I read many computer books that are just repetitive so it can make the books thick enough to look like a 'good book' (May be this is what US raaders like). I try my best to avoid those books. Those books do not say much in hundreds of pages.

But this book is not that kind of book. Every pages are worth to read. It is quite easy to follow. (I do know a bit of TCP/IP from reading other books before I read this book. ) E. g. Stevens TCP/IP books. Unfortunately he died and he won't be able to update those great books.

Some authors are not professional, they just copy here and there. Then they put everything together. Those are terrible books to read. Those terrible books explain some simple concept again and again and take up hundreds of pages that can be done in half of volume. It is not just wasting the readers time (time is money) but also wasting the resource (trees)! Even most college textbooks are that way. Sometimes it is even worst since they know you won't haave much choices!

I seldom to give 5 stars. This book does deserve 5 stars.

You will enjoy this one if you like networking.

One of my favorite Perl books.
It really serves what it says it will. This is one of my favorite Perl books. It covers a great amount of Perl coding, but like the title says, goes into a lot of networking code, functions and so on. For Perl network programming, you really should have and use this book.

The nirvana

Do you want to be a hacker? do you know enought of perl? Do you feel the only you need to be a hacker is some specific book that prepares to it? this is the one, BUY IT, at the end you will think this is one of the best books you have already read, i promise you. Just to say this is a big introduction (from starts to experts) to the network stuff through the magnific language that is perl.

(if you already know the net, it explains how to do the stuff in perl in an exciting way!).