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Perl Cookbook, Second Edition

Format: Paperback
Author: Tom Christiansen
ReleaseDate: 21 August, 2003
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Rating:

Mine is the strength of 10 ...


This book is enjoyable to read - warm and chatty. Mine is the strength of 10 - for I know perl. This book has recipes you can clip and modify. This book is my favorite perl book.

Hey, y'all - I am usually agnostic when it comes to languages and platforms and such - after all, what good does it do to denigrate somebody's favorite programming language?

But I am a lover of perl and turn to it first, if possible.

A reasonable mastery of perl will increase your sysadm, programming, and scripting powers manyfold. Launch a process and monitor it! Grind thru humugously huge log files! In the words of the immortal Steve Wittie "I'll never write shell script again!"

Larry Wall - the great Larry Wall, Tom Christianson and the rest have the grace and good humor of Donald Knuth and Dennis Ritchie in the days of old.

And perl is so 'cool' so flexible, so fun.



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excellent book!
if you are familiar with Perl's syntax, you should have no problem picking up this book. This book has many techniques that help you solve your date to date problem using Perl. The solution for each problem also has great detail on How and Why to solve a problem this way, plus the related Perldoc.

oh, even though this book published 3 years ago, all knowledge applied ( since we are still facing the same kind of problem ;).

Not for learning Perl, but a great reference.
We would agree with the back of the book in saying that it is one of the best programming textbooks we have ever read. The Perl Cookbook is very comprehensive, compared to other Perl books that we've come across. The book's receipt is very timely, for us, since we were having an issue with storing data structures to disk at the time we read the book. The Perl "Recipe" in the book helped us greatly in our application development. We especially like the regular expression grab bag in the middle, we use it all the time. Our students have been very eager to soak up the Perl help that the book provided.