| 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 ReviewsProduct 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. | Amazon.com ReviewIn 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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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 296 reviews. Best source for Learning Perl..., 2009-05-06 Reviewer rating: This is an excellent Perl book for everyone from freshers to experts.
Its interesting to read with good examples wherever required & exercises for practice.
Will definitely be getting Intermediate Perl once I complete this. | Great for learning Perl., 2009-03-17 Reviewer rating: This is a great book for those who are new to programming in Perl. Very good explanations of Perl and the examples are very good too. | Good book but could be excellent, 2009-01-12 Reviewer rating: I have already programmed Perl for years, but decided to spend a few days' free time re-reading the latest (5th) edition. I had previously learned Perl by reading the 1st or 2nd edition. This time around, I learned a few things that I neglected before. That is the good part.
I enjoy the humor of the authors (in the same vein as Larry's Programming Perl). Humor makes the learning more pleasant. However, the incessant reference of the Flintstone is unbearable for a non-fan.
I wish that the book were less wordy so that it can cover more in 300 pages, and that it would cover such fundamental concept as Unicode (good support since 5.8, while this book covers 5.10) in this day and age of globalized software/Internet environment.
I also wish the book would give Win32 a bit more weight and be less Unix-centric.
My opinion of the book may not reflect that of a total beginner, but if I put myself in the shoe of someone new to Perl but with a little bit of programming experience, I'd rate the Llama book to be a rather good one. At least, the writing and the English is good, which cannot be said of most technical programming books of today. Overall, I would definitely recommend it to anybody new to Perl (but not to programming) as the first book. | Great book, 2008-12-21 Reviewer rating: I needed to have a book that outlined the syntax for the coding of Perl. This was an excellent book to give me the basics of Perl. I have recently taken over the support of some software developed in Perl. I have Fortran, Basic, and other software knowledge, but need Perl specific information to debug software written in Perl. | Good book for beginners to PERL, 2008-10-16 Reviewer rating: For folks who are new to PERL this is a good book to learn the language. The presentation is easy to understand and illustrations help us grasp the concepts faster. There are exercises at the end of each chapter which helps in getting to do hands-on programming. I would have liked more exercises in some of the chapters. It would have been better if there were questions / challenges spread along the chapter. |
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