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In this smooth, carefully paced course, a leading Perl trainer teaches you to program in the language that threatens to make C, sed, awk, and the Unix shell obsolete for many tasks. This book is the "official" guide for both formal (classroom) and informal learning. It is fully accessible to the novice programmer.

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Author:	Randal L. Schwartz
Paperback:	304 pages
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Publication Date:	July 14, 2005
ISBN:	0596101058
Package Length:	9.0 inches
Package Width:	7.0 inches
Package Height:	0.8 inches
Package Weight:	1.05 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 291 reviews

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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:

If you're looking for the best Perl introduction, this is it Aug 07, 2008
An oft-repeated allegation against Perl is that it is write-only. In my opinion, this allegation is usually made by programmers proficient in other languages that have trouble understanding or following Perl idioms (one trivial example: the use of for loops instead of the Perl-native foreach loop).

The value of this book is that it teaches a beginner how to use idiomatic Perl. Someone learning Perl from this book will, in course of time, distinguish between line noise and well-written Perl.

A small subset of Perl is covered, not quite sufficient for much other than basic text processing; however the learning provides a firm base for exploration of other Perl books in O'Reilly's Perl menagerie. Specifically, the "Camel" book (Programming Perl) becomes a lot easier to read once the reader has completed this book and work through its exercises.

In sum, this is the best book for a gentle introduction to a very useful language.

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One book for most of use Mar 18, 2008
This is the book which led me into the Perl world. It's not the first Perl book I read. Before came to this book, I read some other books, took online lessions, etc. but it's this easy reading book did the work. I also bought the cookbook but never touch it. The knowledge from this book is quite enough for routine use of Perl for basic but useful scripting. If you're new to Perl, this is the right book for you.

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Learning Perl Nov 02, 2007
Well laid out, easy to follow for a beginner. Serious coders will need a more detailed and in depth book after completing this one.

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very good book for anyone new to perl Oct 27, 2007
I recommend this book to anyone who is new to perl. The only thing I thought could have been better though was add more examples after each chapter. But other than that the book explains the basics very good.

5 of 16 found the following review helpful:

An introduction to Perl Oct 04, 2007
This book is a gives a gentle introduction to Perll; by the time you have gone through this book, you would have touched on some very simple operations and common language idioms found in Perl. This is not a comprehensive guide; on the contrary the book is selective about covering only those constructs and issues that one is most likely to face early on in programming with Perl.

This does not collect any of the more powerful feature in Perl like Reference; Data Structures; Manipulating lists of list.

I would not recomend this book.