| Overview
Learning Perl, popularly known as "the Llama," is the book
most programmers rely on to get started with Perl. The bestselling
Perl tutorial since it was first published in 1993, this new fifth
edition covers recent changes to the language up to Perl
5.10.
This book reflects the combined experience of its authors, who have
taught Perl at Stonehenge Consulting since 1991. Years of classroom
testing and experience helped shape the book's pace and scope, and
this edition is packed with exercises that let you practice the
concepts while you follow the text. Topics include:
Perl is the language for people who want to get work done.
Originally targeted to sysadmins for heavy-duty text processing,
Perl is now a full-featured programming language suitable for
almost any task on almost any platform-from short fixes on the
command line to web applications, bioinformatics, finance, and much
more. Other books may teach you to program in Perl, but this book
will turn you into a Perl programmer.
Editorial ReviewsAmazon.comIn 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. | Product DescriptionLearning Perl, popularly known as "the Llama," is the book most programmers rely on to get started with Perl. The bestselling Perl tutorial since it was first published in 1993, this new fifth edition covers recent changes to the language up to Perl 5.10. This book reflects the combined experience of its authors, who have taught Perl at Stonehenge Consulting since 1991. Years of classroom testing and experience helped shape the book's pace and scope, and this edition is packed with exercises that let you practice the concepts while you follow the text. Topics include: Perl data & variable types Subroutines File operations Regular expressions String manipulation Lists & sorting Process management Smart matching Using third party modules Perl is the language for people who want to get work done. Originally targeted to sysadmins for heavy-duty text processing, Perl is now a full-featured programming language suitable for almost any task on almost any platform-from short fixes on the command line to web applications, bioinformatics, finance, and much more. Other books may teach you to program in Perl, but this book will turn you into a Perl programmer. |
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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 290 reviews. One book for most of use, 2008-03-18 Reviewer rating: 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. | Learning Perl, 2007-11-02 Reviewer rating: Well laid out, easy to follow for a beginner. Serious coders will need a more detailed and in depth book after completing this one. | very good book for anyone new to perl, 2007-10-27 Reviewer rating: 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. | An introduction to Perl, 2007-10-04 Reviewer rating: 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. | Get the second edition, 2007-10-04 Reviewer rating: I learned Perl from the second edition of this book a few years ago, and was very impressed. After a few years without writing a single line of Perl, I needed to learn it again, so I bought the most current version of this book, the fourth edition. I was not as impressed with the fourth edition, it seems that a lot of the more advanced, and useful, stuff has been moved out of this book into the intermediate book. This book is missing a lot of the features that makes Perl a productive language. I'd try a few online tutorials first and then see if the intermediate book would work. Or, if you can find an older edition give that a shot. |
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