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Books : Perl Cookbook
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: In the world of art, a picture can paint a thousand words. In the world of computing a good example does much the same thing. The Perl Cookbook is a superb collection of coding snippets which cover all manner of subject areas in a fashion that proves suitable for beginners and established programmers alike. From date formatting and text searching to socket programming and creating Internet services, it's all here and each is a little gem. Authors Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington have done a sterling job of documenting each code snippet through explanatory text and in-line comments which goes a long way to helping the casual user understand what is going on and more importantly, how and why. As a volume in its own right, the Cookbook is an essential desktop reference for anyone with an interest in programming the language, but combined with O'Reilly's other weighty Perl tomes--Learning Perl, Programming Perl and Advanced Perl Programming--it forms the final piece in one of the most thorough and comprehensive documentation sets for any programming language. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Doesn't encourage good Perl practiceThe biggest problem with this book is that none of the examples work when using the warnings flag and the "strict" pragma... if you leave these out when writing Perl, you can very quickly tie yourself in knots trying to work out why your variables are colliding with each other. So, you can either take the lazy approach and leave out warnings and strict (and pay the cost later when you're dealing with a few hundred lines of code), or you can battle away trying to turn their examples into good Perl ... Read More Rating:  - Perl CookbookThis book is an essential collection of code snippets that can be used as a guide when coding applications. In my opinion this book along with Learning Perl are the 2 essential books to have on your desk if you are doing serious stuff with perl Rating: - Evergreen classicOnce you've learnt the syntax of a language, you want to learn the idioms, and how it's used most effectively. And given Perl's famous 'There's More The One Way To Do It' motto, you'll need all the help you can get. Perl Cookbook is that help. Neither a reference nor a tutorial, if you've ever read another cookbook, you'll know what to expect -- after all, this is the daddy of them all. Themed chapters, consisting of short tasks that most people will find handy e.g. trimming white space ... Read More Rating:  - Not what I had in mindBeing a Perl beginner, this book is too hard for me, things I knew and learned I found out on the net. This Book is maybe a must have for people who's work is writing perl applications all day... For me, writing little programs to process text, this book is too hard... You also need to have unix/linux background. Maybe I should have bought a beginners book, but I saw the 5 stars and read some reviews the book was very good... I only recommend this book to advaced ... Read More Rating: - Buy it ...The summary line says it all - if you're a Perl programmer, you should buy this book irrespective of whether you're a beginner or an `old hand'. One of the best (and worst) things about Perl is the fact that 'There's More Than One Way To Do It', and the Cookbook contains a number of useful recipes for a variety of different tasks ranging from simple things like opening files up to data parsers. A downside of this is that just when you think you know the language, the authors come up with another ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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