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This book has just come out in its fourth edition so it must be doing something right. It's huge, so at first glance, you'd assume that it's the mother of all Perl tomes. It includes a CD with all of the code examples contained in the book so you don't have to struggle with fat fingering your Perl scripts by trying to copy them from the book's pages. Now that the obvious is out of the way, what is this book's goal and does it achieve its mission?
If Perl by Example is supposed to be 'all things to all people', let's start with how it approaches beginners. Chapter 1 is certainly a beginner's chapter, providing a definition for Perl, who uses it, where to get it, and so on. I like that the book is 'Linux-oriented' (refers to Perl man pages, for one thing) so that's a plus. Chapter 2 takes the flip side of the 'beginner' story and offers a 'Perl Quick Start' for those readers who already have programming experience in other languages and just need a little boost to get them going with Perl. It also provides the most helpful piece of advice for readers who are not programmers and advises them to skip ahead to Chapter 5 (that's a lot of chapters to skip).
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