I had heard Perl was cool. This book cured any
skepticism I had. Perl IS cool and this book
leads a novice through it nicely. I think that
experienced programmers will appreciate Perl
the most since it culls the good stuff from many
programming techniques. As an experienced
programmer, I didn't have too much trouble with
stuff in the book, but I did sense that it
sometimes ran a pretty big range of skill levels
and sophistication.
My only big pet peeve: the foot notes denoted
with astricks. With all that Perl code looking
remarkably like gibberish, it was sometimes quite
hard to find the footnotes reference.
Oh ya, this book is highly Unix-centric. It
mentions DOS, etc, but really, if you're going
to embark on a Perl agenda, get a clue...& Linux.