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Book:   Programming Perl
Subject:   Programming Perl, 3rd Edition Review
Date:   2003-10-24 08:21:16
From:   Cheryl M.
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

Like a lot of the other comments, I believe this is an excellent book... The humor is great and makes a dry subject so much easier to digest... While I agree it is not a book for beginners, I think it should be required reading for Computer Science students as it describes common programming concepts in terms of common English concepts, humorously at that...


I have only 2 complaints... 1. The index really needs work! 2. I wish the standard module reference noted which versions they apply to... This is my first attempt at writing Perl code and I need to write for cross-platform systems that may be at many different Perl 5.x version levels... It's frustraing to find a real cool and useful module only to find it doesn't work on the version of Perl we have installed. It's hard enough testing on multiple platforms, let alone multiple versions.



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