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Randal Schwartz's Perls of Wisdom

Format: Paperback
Author: Randal Schwartz
ReleaseDate: 14 December, 2004
Publisher: Apress
Rating:

Useful tidbits abound
You might want to complain about the layout somewhat, but collections rarely fit into neat categories and these columns are no exception. It's amazing how much Perl knowledge is crammed into some people and Randal Schwartz has more than his fair share!

His articles are concise and cogent.

While quite a bit of this makes use of tools and techniques that I have not found use for yet in my work, it has made me think about implementing a few things for my own personal joy. And by pawing through the examples and the code, I picked up a tidbit or two that I had not thought of or considered before, especially in Section 5, The Webmaster's Toolkit. I can't wait to try some of it out!

If there's to be any complaint, it's that some articles (as the author admits) have had their core ideas superceded by newer additions to Perl. It might have been nice to find addenda to these articles, showing some updated coding, rather than having it left up to the imagination. Still, it's not enough of a complaint to rate this as anything less than a 5-start masterwork.

Messy, even for an article book
The content is all over the place and the formatting should have at least gone through some sort of standardization process. It's not in my nature to like article compilation books and this one seems actually a little worse than usual to me. I find this kind of book very lazy. At the very least, be sure check the outline to make sure what's being covered matters to you before spending the money on this one.

Great help!
He is the PERL man. Randal Schwartz is PERL.

I know PERL very well, but even I learned a lot from this great book.