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Perl Index - Perl Book :
Perl Resource Kit Win32 Edition
by Dick Hardt, Erik Olson, David Futato, Brian Jepson Paperback: ISBN: B0000667GI; Bk&Cd Rom edition (August 1998) This large box set represents the state of the art in Perl for 32-bit Windows systems. In this package, you have the Perl core modules, extensions, utilities, and scores of excellent technical documentation. If you want to develop Perl software under Windows NT or other modern Windows environments, you need the Perl Resource Kit-- Win32 Edition. The CD-ROM is the big news here. It contains the Win32 Perl core binaries, plus PerlCtrl, PerlCOM, PL2EXE, and Perl for Internet Server Application Programming Interface (ISAPI). You'll also find Perl Web-server extensions and the ActiveState Perl Debugger environment. All this is in addition to the examples from the books! Perhaps best of all, the disk holds the language's source files. Yes, you could get most of this software online, but the convenience of having all the binaries and source together on a CD-ROM--to say nothing of the documentation--makes the Perl Resource Kit--Win32 Edition extraordinary and worthwhile. --David Wall Book Description: The Perl Resource Kit Win32 Edition is an essential tool for Perl programmers who are expanding their platform expertise to include Win32, and for Win32 Webmasters and system administrators who have discovered the power and flexibility of Perl. The Kit contains some of the latest commercial Win32 Perl software from Dick Hardt's ActiveState Tool Corp., along with a collection of Perl modules that run on Win32, and a definitive documentation set from O'Reilly. The Perl Resource Kit Win32 Edition provides: Over 1800 pages of in-depth documentation covering hundreds of Perl modules and detailed instructions on the new Win32 Perl software. The books in the Kit are not available elsewhere and include: • Programming with Perl Modules, by Erik Olson • Perl Module Reference, two volumes compiled and edited by David Futato • Perl Utilities Guide, by Brian Jepson A CD-ROM containing the complete Perl for Win32 5.005 distribution, plus new commercial Win32 Perl software, including: • Perl debugger (enables easy location of bugs and swift verification of your scripts) • Visual Package Manager (enhances installation of hundreds of certain Perl modules that run on Win32) • PerlCOM (enables access to Perl scripts as COM objects) • PerlCtrl (turns a Perl script into an ActiveX control) • Network Install (enables installation on a network) • Win32 Perl Help from O'Reilly and other tools for Perl developers The Perl Resource Kit, Win32 Edition, is brought to you by the premier publisher of Perl and Windows books and documentation, O'Reilly & Associates. Customer Reviews Reviewer: scoobyttfs from Philly, PA The Perl Utilities Guide, and Programming with Perl Modules books are very good. However, the reference to the modules is simply the perldoc pages neatly bound. The software is very good, and ActiveState continues to support it, so it was a good investment. Reviewer: mfwhitmore@marz.com from St. Louis, MO I have bought many books from Amazon, but I have never come back to write a review. I found this purchase to be my best resource, yet. Lots of perl resources in one location and a terrific debugger too. The debugger has an interface that is similar to Visual C++ Developer. If you don't want to spend all your time looking up information on intermediate to advance perl subjects, get this resource kit. The books alone will save you a lot of time. Reviewer: brian@zenbear.com from Houston, TX This is an excellent resource once you reach intermediate status. The PRK covers subjects that no other book does, such as, using PerlScript in ASP. Other areas covered: Perl and COM, writing extensions for Perl, module reference for win32 Perl, and programming Perl modules. The free debugger alone is worth the cost of the package. Reviewer: jeffk@dgi.com from Alameda, California The $120 bucks is money well-spent, especially if you program with perl modules. The collection of tools has made my life much easier, and the examples have opened my mind to things that I had no idea that perl could do. A good deal of space is dedicated to CGI programming (including Lincoln Stein's invaluable cgi.pm module) and Active Server Pages (perlScript). If you are serious about web programming, you will find these resources very useful. There is also a good deal of information about perl/Tk. Don't buy this if you have never looked at perl before: It is not intended for beginners. However, I strongly recommend it for intermediate to advanced perl users. |
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