Beginning Perl

by James Lee

Immensely popular Perl combines the best features of C, key UNIX utilities, and powerful regular expressions. Perl is commonly used for web programming, as well as e-mail and Usenet news filtering. Fast becoming the system administrator’s scripting language of choice, Perl is also useful for file and directory manipulation, database access, and a broad range of daily system operator chores.

This second edition dispels the image of Perl as a sometimes confusing, obscure language, and instead, promotes Perl as a legible, sensible programming language. Concise and focused, this book reaches out to users of all experience levels, and covers basic to advanced aspects of Perl, Apache modPerl, and Perlscript (for use with Wintel systems). This book also stresses the cross-platform nature of Perl.

Genres: Programming

464 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[inner_loops · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was my first Perl book. After a few chapters and some googling I was able to write a few "real world" scripts/programs, so it does its job. My only real criticism is that it does too much hand holding; I'm not new to programming, so I found the explanations for basic programming concepts to be distracting. It's trying to be a book both for people new to programming and people who are experienced programmers but new to Perl. I think it would have been better just choose one of those.

It's a good book though, you'll come away with enough Perl to get stuff done. It just won't be your only Perl book, it's called Beginning Perl for a reason; there's a lot it doesn't cover.

[Nicholas · Rating 3 out of 5]

I remember it being decent.

[Kenn Lau · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great book, lots of foundational examples, great to keep as a reference.