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Perl Core Language Little Black Book: The Essentials of the Perl Language
by Steven Holzner Paperback: 500 pages Dimensions (in inches): 1.22 x 9.02 x 6.08 Publisher: The Coriolis Group ISBN: 1576104265; (March 12, 1999) Covers Perl syntax and programming thoroughly, from the essentials up through the issues of security, creating Perl packages, and topics like dynamic multiple class inheritance. Includes step-by-step solutions on object-oriented programming in Perl. Covers how to handle syntax, math, files, modules, CGI, and OLE for Perl programming. About the Author: Steven Holzner (Cambridge, MA) is a former contributing editor for PC Magazine and has authored more than 60 books ranging in subject from assembly language to C++. His books have sold over a million copies and have been translated into 15 languages. Steven was on the faculty of Cornell University for 10 years, where he earned his Ph.D., and has also been on the faculty of his undergraduate school, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Customer Reviews Reviewer: Paul Cotter from Miami, Fl United States This is a combination of reference and learning. I would not advise this for a person trying to learn PERL as their first language, but if you already have a grasp of C++, Java, VB, Python or some other complex scripting language then this is ideal. So we do not have the first three chapters explaining what a program is. There is a useful rip-out card with most of the syntax. PERL is full of obscure symbols and patterns such as $_[0] or $] or even /^((\((\d{3}\))? ?\d{3}-\d{4},? *)+$/ (which locates a telephone number). The book explains them concisely and provides reference tables which are useful after you have mastered the fundamentals. If you want a more gentle entry then something like "PERL and CGI for the World Wide Web" by Castro will lead you in a more 'human' way. It's excellent, but after you have been through it it will be placed on the shelf - it's not a reference document. If you want lots of complex examples so you can play round with pre-existing code then look at "Mastering PERL 5". PCLLBB (plus the rip-out card) is the book I keep within arm's length. The blank pages at the back I have written in as a secondary index to the tables. Incidentally the index is good. The only problem (as with all indexes) is if you do not know what you are looking for. For example, to remove a line feed you use chomp() and you can look up truncate, line feed, substring etc and not find it. This is where you need your own index! Reviewer: randem from Clearwater, FL This book is an absolute "must have" for Perl programmers. I have found it to be the most user-friendly and complete reference available for the Perl language. The entire book is well written and well indexed, and gives not only explanations and examples, but also points out more than one way to do everything (which is part of the beauty of Perl.) I would recommend this book to anyone who uses Perl, beginners or advanced users. Reviewer: rarmente from West New York, NJ - United States In a line, buy this book if you want to start programming in perl. I started reading this book 5 days ago, and I already consider myself a perl programmer. I am a computer engineering student at Stevens Institute of Tech and my main focus of study is network security from a programmer standpoint. After a couple of days reading this book, I could already create simple client/server applications. In addition, I learned how to handle files in numerous ways, and how to work with their content "you will be amazed how easy this is done in Perl" and even formating text, creating DBM Database files etc. Object oriented programming is very well explained and finally CGI scrips are also very well presented "with lots of security warnings." I would give this book six stars if I could since it does its job VERY well! My extensive programming experienced really helped me in the reading process, but the language and examples are so clear that even newbies in programming could assimilate the content easily!!! You can contact me at rarmente@stevens-tech.edu if you have further questions. Reviewer: matt15602 from Binghamton, New York United States Perl is a kitchen sink kind of language---it is huge. It is also a superb language for certain purposes. Some programmers will want to learn the "entire" language, but perl is so flexible that it is worth learning even a little of the language for occasional use. I need to use perl as a CGI interface between a database and some web pages and for little else. As such I use it occasionally. When I do, this book is at my elbow. The core language is covered thoroughly, logically and with practicality. I know of no other book that makes it so easy to work with a "difficult" language. Be warned that perl is much more than its core language. There is a huge library of modules that help with many different types of applications. This book covers very few of these modules, but it coveres the basics of modular use. Books twice the size of this one will still only cover a fraction of the modules out there, so I don't see that it is worth looking for a "more complete" book. My own use of perl has me using this book and the O'Reilly book on the perl DBI interface. |
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