- Paperback: 670 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 2 edition (8 Oct 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1565921496
- ISBN-13: 978-1565921498
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 17.8 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
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Programming Perl, 2nd Edition is the authoritative guide to Perl version 5, the scripting utility that has established itself as the programming tool of choice for the World Wide Web, UNIX system administration, and a vast range of other applications. Version 5 of Perl includes object-oriented programming facilities. The book is coauthored by Larry Wall, the creator of Perl.
Perl is a language for easily manipulating text, files, and processes. It provides a more concise and readable way to do many jobs that were formerly accomplished (with difficulty) by programming with C or one of the shells. Perl is likely to be available wherever you choose to work. And if it isn't, you can get it and install it easily and free of charge.
This heavily revised second edition of Programming Perl contains a full explanation of the features in Perl version 5.003. Contents include:
- An introduction to Perl
- Explanations of the language and its syntax
- Perl functions
- Perl library modules
- The use of references in Perl
- How to use Perl's object-oriented features
- Invocation options for Perl itself, and also for the utilities that come with Perl
- Other oddments: debugging, common mistakes, efficiency, programming style, distribution and installation of Perl, Perl poetry, and so on.
About the Author
Larry Wall is one of the associates of O'Reilly & Associates; in his copious free time :-) he has authored some of the most popular free programs available for UNIX, including the rn news reader, the ubiquitous patch program, and the Perl programming language. He's also known for metaconfig, a program that writes Configure scripts, and for the warp space-war game, the first version of which was written in BASIC/PLUS at Seattle Pacific University. By training Larry is actually a linguist, having wandered about both U.C. Berkeley and U.C.L.A. as a grad student. (Oddly enough, while at Berkeley, he had nothing to do with the UNIX development going on there.) Over the course of years, he has spent time at Unisys, JPL, NetLabs, and Seagate, playing with everything from discrete event simulators to network-management systems, with the occasional spacecraft thrown in. (He also plays with his four kids every now and then, but they win too often.) It was at Unisys, while trying to glue together a bicoastal configuration management system over a 1200 baud encrypted link using a hacked-over version of Netnews, that Perl was born. Tom Christiansen is a freelance consultant specializing in Perl training and writing. After working for several years for TSR Hobbies (of Dungeons and Dragons fame), he set off for college where he spent a year in Spain and five in America, dabbling in music, linguistics, programming, and some half-dozen different spoken languages. Tom finally escaped UW-Madison with B.A.s in Spanish and computer science and an M.S. in computer science. He then spent five years at Convex as a jack-of-all-trades working on everything from system administration to utility and kernel development, with customer support and training thrown in for good measure. Tom also served two terms on the USENIX Association Board of directors. With over fifteen years' experience in UNIX system administration and programming, Tom presents seminars internationally. Living in the foothills above Boulder, Colorado, surrounded by mule deer, skunks, and the occasional mountain lion and black bear, Tom takes summers off for hiking, hacking, birding, music making, and gaming. Randal L. Schwartz is an eclectic tradesman and entrepreneur, making his living through software design, technical writing, system administration, security consultation, and video production. He is known internationally for his prolific, humorous, and occasionally incorrect spatterings on Usenet -- especially his "Just another perl hacker" signoffs in comp.lang.perl. Randal honed his many crafts through seven years of employment at Tektronix, ServioLogic, and Sequent. For the past five years he has owned and operated Stonehenge Consulting Services in his home town of Portland, Oregon.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
knowing is not teaching,
By Richtourist (London UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Programming Perl (A Nutshell handbook) (Paperback)
Classic situation where someone knows all about something but is unable to teach it.
Never gets to the point without first changing the subject. Repeatedly tells you there are exceptions to what was just said, but never says what they are. Waffle Waffle Waffle. "Not only endless lame jokes, but also lame endless ones." -That is the sort of linguistic playfulness the author finds funny. There is a laugh on every page. Goes to a great deal of effort to not quite explain something. If you have any experience coding you can see what is going on straight away in most examples (you just want to know the syntax), but when you get to one you can't understand the book will not quite help. I was given my copy - now I know why. You are better off using a more succinct text, and a bit of trial and error to get what you want. Certainly if you are new to coding this is not a place to start learning Perl.
4.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent resource for the wannabe Perl programmer.,
By s.calcott@dcs.hull.ac.uk (Hull, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Programming Perl (A Nutshell handbook) (Paperback)
This book took me from the firsts steps of Perl programming through to the creation of modules and using external resources. Within a few days I felt competant at using the language, and was creating scripts in little or no time at all.The author(s) manage to inject humour into a book which doesn't need it, but it is a welcome break during the trawel of the chapters. I would recommend this book to anyone who wishes to learn Perl. Both the language, and the book, lead me to believe that this is the most developer-friendly language out there. A must for any Perl programmer.
4.0 out of 5 stars
The reference,
By A Customer
This review is from: Programming Perl (A Nutshell handbook) (Paperback)
As an occasional programmer, this book is my reference. Unlike many other O'Reilly programming books, here it is easy to look-up forgotten commands and detailed explanations.
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