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Book:   Learning Perl
Subject:   Review of Learning Perl
Date:   2008-06-19 00:25:08
From:   Ludwig Lim
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

Overall I find that "Learning Perl" is a good book. The authors painstakingly try to teach how to program Perl the way professional Perl programmers do. The book also tries to explain some of the "predefined variables" (such as @_, $!) that people who maintain Perl programs might come across with (Thanks for this).


One of my "gripe" is that it seems that Chapter 1 can be more terse. It needs 11 pages before it shows the "hello world" program, (Seems that there are only 3 scripts found in Chap. 1 is "Hello World", there are a couple of other, 2 others are just to show that you can write complicated programs using perl ).


It would be nice if "Learning Perl" and "Intermediate Perl" can be combined into one book (It is almost akin to splitting a C++ book into 2 books, 1 book for non-OO features of C++, and another book for the OO features of C++ [A little exaggeration])


Overall a very good book, especially for those who don't have programming background.

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