Learning Perl, 5th Edition
February 6th, 2010 by CGI & PHP.com
- ISBN13: 9780596520106
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
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 t… More >>
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February 6th, 2010 at 7:45 am
i read nine chapters of this book
1.i still don't know what perl can really do.
2.can perl work only under DOS?not windows?
3.what books should i read next to became a perl programmer
4. (can perl make PC games?)
5. how can i turn my perl program into a regular .exe program so it could run on computers that doesn't have perl!
thanks
Rating: 5 / 5
February 6th, 2010 at 10:00 am
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.
Rating: 1 / 5
February 6th, 2010 at 10:05 am
When I sought to find a scripting language to further the development of a website I was working on I was told that Perl was the best thing since sliced bread. Well, you'd never know it by reading this dull and boring book. It reminds me of one of those horrible college texts we've all encountered (and paid way to much for) with page after page of small font examples.
To be fair, I did learn many of the basics of Perl by reading the book (although I never did figure out what the intro by Larry Wall was all about, his magical beads, etc. I thought maybe Weird Al Yankovic had written it instead). After plowing threw most of the book — and many tears later, I found I could actually write a few simple Perl programs. But getting them to work on a real webserver was another story.
That's when someone introduced me to another scripting language called PHP. Bingo! I learned more PHP, and how to use it on webservers, in one weekend of studying the on-line user manual than I did in two months with the Perl book. In short, forget Perl, unless you really like studying long, pedantic, cryptic and utterly obscure syntax to get a simple task done. If you do, however, you will enjoy this Schwartz and Christiansen book.
Rating: 1 / 5
February 6th, 2010 at 10:41 am
The fist chapter is completly screwed up. they start of with the simple "hello world" program then you would think they would build on that. He starts off with a simple but cool program to accept a NAME input and tell you hello, Then you build that by guessing a secret word and hence your into scalar varibles etc… But then all of a sudden he's got you writing out more code but he doesn't explain where that goes… I flip back a page and nope I dont see where we got off track, so then he puts it together and it looks NOTHING like you just been working on! This back and forth goes on and on and is a DISASTER for the 1st chapter read by a newbie. One time your writing a cool program then the next you get lost because the author doesn't explain what the f^&* is going on.??
Then he goes on to say "putting it all together it looks like this" but it doesn't! Loads and loads are left out or just not explained. I've got 5+ years in linux and I challenge ANYONE to explain that 1st chapter in a logical manner.
Rating: 1 / 5
February 6th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
Good fast shipping. Shipped in the state that was stated. I have not had much time with the book so i will not comment on the contents of the book.
Rating: 5 / 5