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Perl Index - Perl Book :
Perl 5 Complete
by Ed Peschko, Michelle Dewolfe, Edward S. Peschko Paperback: 1232 pages Publisher: Osborne McGraw-Hill ISBN: 0079136982; Bk&Cd-Rom edition (June 12, 1998) The authors share this assessment of the Perl programming language by its founder, Larry Wall: Known as the "camel" language, "Perl may not look good, or smell good, but it gets the job done." Whether using Perl as a text processing, networking, system administration, and/or Web scripting language, in-depth guidance with examples aid with setting up the Perl environment, variables, structures and operators, functions and scope, regular expressions, object-oriented programming, debugging, creating CGI scripts from existing tools, and a Perl spreadsheet. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the new Perl compiler, source code, Net and Windows 95 modules. Book Description: Perl 5 just won the Web Tools Award for best scripting language, edging out JavaScript and VBScript. This is the package that puts all the in-demand facts about Perl 5 together in one place: what Perl is, how to program it, and how to use the brand-new Perl compiler. An in-depth reference, it shows pros how to build modules for NT and Unix; interface Perl to other programming languages, including Java, Visual Basic, anc C/C+; and find fast answers to CGI questions. Perl is the dominant scripting language for the World Wide Web. Scripting languages build interactivity into a Website--like shopping carts, contests, forms, etc. This book is the complete reference to existing Perl technologies and to the new Perl5 compiler provided on the CD-ROM. From the Back Cover: Of the multitude of languages available, Perl has emerged as the language of choice for Internet programmers and Web developers who wish to build dynamically interactive sites. And Perl 5 offers programmers a battery of key tools -- including a new compiler that creates faster, more compact code. Only Perl 5 Complete delivers the complete background professional programmers need to be conversant in Perl and create the best Web sites. This requisite sourcebook covers it all basic syntax, regular expressions, and much more. Inside Perl 5 Complete you'll find everything you need to: • Master the new Perl compiler • Develop modules for Windows NT: Process, Mutex, Registry, and OLE ODBC • Develop modules for Unix: ProcessMgr, SafeSig, and ReadKey • Use Perl to run databases and CGI applications more smoothly • Interface Perl 5 to Java, Visual Basic, and C/C++ • Explore dozens of pre-written programming modules Customer Reviews Reviewer: A reader from Chicago, IL I'm an experienced programmer, but a Perl beginner. I had to borrow Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days to get started, but once I got going, this book is the best. Also, the author has been most appreciative when I've e-mailed him about the typos. Reviewer: EssKay from SF bay area I have read through a good portion of the book - however, I am not new to Perl. This book is riddled with errors. For instance, take a look at the function simple_recursion on page 151. This is an infinite loop! On page 216, the author talks about dereferencing complex data structures and describes (very poorly, I might add) - three rules, numbered 1,2 and 3. And then he refers to the nonexistent rules No.4 and No. 2b on page 218! These are just a couple of instances that I have mentioned here. Virtually every page has such errors that it really takes the joy out of learning new concepts. If you are new to perl, stay away from this book. Pick a copy of the Llama book, or better yet, buy the PERL CD bookshelf. Read the Llama book first, cover to cover. I am giving this two stars - because there is some good in it if you read it in conjunction with the Perl CD bookshelf. I really think that McGraw Hill should give the (corrected) second edition free to those who unwittingly bought a copy of the first edition. Reviewer: Malena R Mesarina from Palo Alto, CA United States This is one of the most unorganized books I have ever read. I just started learning Perl, and I used this book because it was available in the library. I read up to chapter 10. One big problem with this book is that the Index is very short and the book is huge, so most of the time I cannot find a reference pointer to the subject I am interested. The index is basically useless. So I have wasted a lot of time trying to find information about a specific subject by browsing the book until I found a relevant heading. There seems to be tones of information in this book but, the organization is terrible; it is as if they had just dumped a lot of scattered information into one book, without beeing concerned about the logical flow. After chapter 10, the topics are very advanced, but they are not introduced properly. There is the assumption that you already know a lot of object oriented programming. I have given up on this book and threw it away. I never write book reviews but I felt compelled to do it today, because this book just got to my nerves by wasting so much of my time. I hope you don't waste your money on this book. Reviewer: akbishop from Lakewood, Washington If you are wanting to learn perl, this book will help you do that. It jumps in quickly into how to code perl, so be prepared. If you have coded C++, then this perl won't be that hard with this book. However, if you've never programmed before, then this is not the book for you. Once I had learned perl, I found this book to be a 500 page paper weight. It does little good as a reference. |
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