Perl Cookbook, Second Edition
February 6th, 2010 by CGI & PHP.com
Product Description
The second edition of Perl Cookbook has been fully updated for Perl 5.8, with extensive changes for Unicode support, I/O layers, mod_perl, and new technologies that have emerged since the previous edition of the book. Recipes have been updated to include the latest modules. New recipes have been added to every chapter of the book, and some chapters have almost doubled in size. Covered topic areas include:Manipulating strings, numbers, dates, arrays, and hashesPatt… More >>
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February 6th, 2010 at 9:03 am
When I first looked at this book, it seemed like a good idea. Perl is sufficiently arcane for there to be lot's of simple solutions that will not be immediately obvious. However, the book has two major faults. It is too thick, and it is too specific.
What I had hoped for was something like "Design Patterns", but for Perl. But instead of trying to generalize, this book tries to list every specific problem that the beginning Perl programmer is likely to meet. For that reason it is unreadable. Any real insight is bound to get hidden in between dozens of trivial tasks. And when you actually meet some problem you think would be a good idea to look up, it is unlikely to be exactly the same as the authors envisioned (why not simply write a library instead?).
With the general incompetence level in the IT-sector during the dot-com bubble, it is possible this book needed to exist, but today it seems like a monument of stupidity, a useless reference that will catch dust forever.
Rating: 1 / 5
February 6th, 2010 at 11:22 am
Don't spend money on this book. Unless you are a beginner with no experience you will not learn anything new from it. Programming Perl is a much better book that contains all of the information found in this book plus x10 more.
Rating: 2 / 5
February 6th, 2010 at 12:57 pm
The book, excelent.. but I had problems with the delivery. Fortunally I bougth it to Amazon and they sended to me another book. When I have used UPS or FEDEX I have not had any problem, but with the normal mail, please I don't want it anymore..
Rating: 5 / 5
February 6th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
for a beginner like me this book was a second read after I finished the llama book.. bit bulky but worth the money
Rating: 3 / 5
February 6th, 2010 at 3:06 pm
There are so many errors in the book (about 350 errors). It was said that the book was hurried to meet the deadline (for Perl Conference). I suggest to wait until they fix them in the second edition.
Rating: 1 / 5