This is a GREAT book. Let me tell you why I bought it.

When I had first decided I was going to learn Perl there were, or so it seemed, many options. After spending serveral weeks searching the web for a decent tutorial, one for a beginner with no knoledge other than HTML, and a little of JavaScript, I gave up. I eventually checked out the Perl books at the Borders by my school (I'm 15). After going over the serveral books I had chosen, and please keep reading after I tell you about this, "Perl for Dummies".

Reading "Perl for Dummies" gave me a general understanding of the Perl syntex, but I had no idea how, and where to use anything I learned. I mean, I couldn't write a script without bugs. Reference was almost impossible with a weak index and a book that covers about half of the Perl language.

Desperate, I went back to Borders and found "Perl in a Nutshell". With the help of this book and some sample scripts I picked up from several places on the web (check out cgi.resourceindex.com) I quickly learned how to use Perl, and in an effective way. I owe my knoledge of this great CGI language to O'Reilly.

Thanks for the great book, it lives on my computer and helps me all the time! By far the most helpful computer book I ever bought!