This is a book whose brilliance is not in its authors' mastery of English. It is just the most eloquent book I've found on any
programming language. After a certain point, you just want a book to lay out the language's syntax clearly; if you desire to 'grok'
the philosophy of perl, you look at other books or read the preface. This book doesn't tell you how feature x is strong, or make
jokes about how deprecated feature is weak. It lets you decide for yourself, and gives pointers to other books that contain
these comments. I of course don't recommend this as a starting text if you're a little new to programming, or don't quite
understand what Perl is useful for.