Learning Perl, Third Edition
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Written by Randal L. Schwartz and Tom Phoenix.
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Learning Perl first appeared in 1993 and has been a bestseller ever since. Written by two of the most prominent and active members of the Perl community, this book is the quintessential tutorial to the Perl programming language. The third edition has not only been updated for Perl Version 5.6, but has also been rewritten from the ground up to reflect the needs of programmers learning Perl today. After years of success teaching Perl as consultants, the authors have re-engineered the book to better match the pace and scope appropriate for readers trying to get started with Perl, while retaining the detailed discussion, thorough examples, and eclectic wit that the book is famous for. Other books may teach you to program in Perl, but this book will turn you into a Perl programmer.User Reviews (1) Login or create an account to write a review.
Dale Brayden thinks this book is Worth Reading.
After completing this book you will have a good grasp of most perl fundamentals. There are two areas that I think should have been covered in somewhat more depth:
- references
- single-line / command-line scripts
I can understand why the book doesn't go into any depth on references, but to be able to understand an existing perl program of any size you really have to understand how references work.
At the other end of the spectrum, the most common use of perl, especially by the beginning perl programmer, will be short one-off scripts. The book should really have provided a chapter on that topic.
In all, I found the book useful. I've programmed in perl off and on for quite a while, but never spent any time trying to understand its (sometimes bizarre seeming) syntax and semantics. The book plugged a few holes for me.