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An excellent mix of humor and information. This book reads with the audacity of a fiction novel and the intelligence of a technical manual. As in-depth and entertaining as any book you'll ever pick up. Larry Wall is my hero!!

Although I don't recommend this book for beginners to programming, I do recommend it for those of you out there who know and love to program, and just want to add perl to your bag of magic tricks. In-depth, easy to understand, and damn near impossible to put down!! My bookshelf would never be the same without it.