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Review: Many recent books about Perl skimp on the Perl language per se and treat the Perl language as a mere appendage to CGI
scripting. That is an egregious error: Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language) is a fantastic language for processing text,
generating reports, and managing files and processes. Written by the perlson who created Perl (Larry Wall), this book covers the
essential features of the language extremely well -- even lucidly. Plus, it is filled with Larry Wall's wired sense of humor
(tempered, one senses, by Randal Schwartz). If you're a beginning programmer and want to become a real Perl programmer, and
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Review:Perl in a Nutshell strives to be a perfect set of socket tools for the active Perl programmer. By and large, it succeeds, providing endless
and well-thought-out lists and tables on the language's modules, flags, and extensions. The authors briefly address basic learner's
questions--such as the difference between a hash and an array--but these concepts are not the purpose of the book. (Those new to
Perl would be better off with others in the O'Reilly Perl series, such as Learning Perl, while programmers making the switch to Perl can
pick up the nuances of the language with Programming Perl.) This book is pure Perl reference, briefly covering P...
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