- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (8 Aug 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1565922204
- ISBN-13: 978-1565922204
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 18 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
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- #65 in Books > Computers & Internet > Computer Science > Programming > Languages > Perl
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'This book lives up to everything I have come to expect of the O'Reilly Nutshell series, being both technically accurate and highly readable. I would recommend it to anyone needing to extend or embed perl as well as to those wishing to move to more complex perl programming than they might be doing at the moment.' - Tom Hughes, Cvue, January 2000
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So you've learned Perl, but you're getting frustrated. Perhaps you've taken on a larger project than the ones you're used to. Or you want to add a user interface or a networking component. Or you need to do more complicated error trapping.
Whether your knowledge of Perl is casual or deep, this book will make you a more accomplished programmer. Here you can learn the complex techniques for production-ready Perl programs. This book explains methods for manipulating data and objects that may have looked like magic before. Furthermore, it sets Perl in the context of a larger environment, giving you the background you need for dealing with networks, databases, and GUIs. The discussion of internals helps you program more efficiently and embed Perl within C or C within Perl.
Major topics covered include:
- Practical use of packages and classes (object-oriented programming)
- Complex data structures
- Persistence (e.g., using a database)
- Networking
- Graphical interfaces, using the Tk toolkit
- Interaction with C language functions
- Embedding and extending the Perl interpreter
In addition, the book patiently explains all sorts of language details you've always wanted to know more about, such as the use of references, trapping errors through the eval operator, non-blocking I/O, when closures are helpful, and using ties to trigger actions when data is accessed. You will emerge from this book a better hacker, and a proud master of Perl.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you think you know a bit about perl after reading through 'Learning Perl' - then this book will open your eyes to a whole new method of working.
Written in a fresh and easy to read format, the author gets straight to the point with well chosen code snippets.
It won't show you how to write complete 'flashy' programs, but it will train you into a more methodical and rational habit.
A recommended book if you are hungry for more, or constantly stare at perl scripts and think 'Why did they do that?'
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Like many Perl coders I've got a fair few perl books, including the cookbook. However this is the one I keep coming back to time and time again. If you want to know how to do OO programming, network coding build TCP servers, database manipulation etc, then this is the book for you. The cookbook gives you stuff to copy and paste - this book allows you to create your own unique and new recipes from scratch.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I've been playing with Perl (where playing I guess is the operative word) for about 6 years now.
That means I've read -- or tried to read -- what have been rated as some of the best books on Perl. But I've read them intermittently, as I do all technical works: a bit here, a bit there, pause a bit, try a bit of code, look up a chapter... etc.
This book was different. Within 12 hours of getting it, I had read continuously through to the end of Chapter 7 (120+ pages), taking it all in voraciously. Somehow, this has picked up on every important cranny in the language I had skipped over as "too hard" or "too confusing" -- with all deference to Larry, Tom and Randal.. It hits the spot with examples just where I need them, and with concepts and analogies that clicked into place beautifully.
If you know about pointers, but puzzle about refs and typeglobs and $$this and \$that and *somethingelse, if talk of aliases, closures, and variable suicide have made you feel inadequate... if the works of modules, objects and stuff like that still has you confused, this book is for you.
The only problem: I used to think of myself as a tech writer... they still pay me for it. Now I just feel inadequate. But I'm learning.
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Interesting in parts, outdated in others
From the perspective of 2007, this book suffers from not being all that advanced. Also, some of the examples, particularly in the opening chapters, suffer from being a bit... Read more
Published on 15 July 2007 by Thing with a hook
Everything you wanted to know, but were too confused to ask.
Very easy to read; well thought out examples; excellent coverage of topics such as network programming, persistence and OO, as well as some of the more esoteric aspects of Perl. Read more
Published on 28 July 2000
More essential the more familiar you are with it
Wasn't impressed with this book at first; but once you've started wandering around it, it gradually starts to come off the shelf with ever increasing frequency. Read more
Published on 29 Mar 1999
Great complement to other Perl resource books
The most useful section for me was the implementing advanced data structures. A great reference in general and serves as a capable complement to other O'Reilly Perl books.
Published on 15 Sep 1998
Great Book for Perl programers
This Book Helped me understand Perl Moudule Creation and Exception Handling as well as teach the Architecture of Perl. A great Handbook for programmers and Perl Hobbyists alike.
Published on 16 Aug 1998
I thought I was an expert. I wasn't, but I am now!
I've worked with PERL, including 5.0, for some time now. This book helped me get deeper into objects, references, modules (my own and others') and the internals of the source... Read more
Published on 28 July 1998
Good for those who are past beginner stage
I felt that this book covered alot of topics which I had avoided up till now. Although I have been using perl for over a year I hadn't used any of these "advanced" topics... Read more
Published on 22 July 1998
Too plain to be "advanced"
This is probably one of the poorer books in my O'Reilly collection. While all the other books I own from them seem to cover all basis of a particular topic, from concept to... Read more
Published on 5 Mar 1998
A good Advanced Perl book
"Advanced Perl Programming" by Srinivasan (O'Reilly; ISBN 1-56592-220-4) is the first advanced Perl book I've seen and I've needed one for about 7 years or so. Read more
Published on 8 Oct 1997
Excellent book for serious Perl developers
This book is designed for those wishing to maximise their understanding of Perl; the text is suited to an audience familiar with programming technique (ample references are... Read more
Published on 23 Sep 1997
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