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  • Paperback: 744 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition (4 Nov 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0596003102
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596003104
  • Product Dimensions: 23.7 x 17.8 x 4.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"This excellent work from O'Reilly is the first in a valuable series of revised and edited reprints of the very best articles from the Journal. If you're looking for simple answers to generic problems, then this work is certainly not for you. On the other hand, for a thrilling, thought provoking read which will certainly stretch and enliven your coding approach, this volume comes highly recommended." - Martin Howse, Linux User & Developer, issue 27


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In its first five years of existence, The Perl Journal ran 247 articles by over 120 authors. Every serious Perl programmer subscribed to it, and every notable Perl guru jumped at the opportunity to write for it. TPJ explained critical topics such as regular expressions, databases, and object-oriented programming, and demonstrated Perl's utility for fields as diverse as astronomy, biology, economics, AI, and games. The magazine gave birth to both the Obfuscated Perl Contest and the Perl Poetry contest, and remains a proud and timeless achievement of Perl during one of its most exciting periods of development. Computer Science and Perl Programming is the first volume of The Best of the Perl Journal, compiled and re-edited by the original editor and publisher of The Perl Journal, Jon Orwant. In this series, we've taken the very best (and still relevant) articles published in TPJ over its 5 years of publication and immortalized them into three volumes. This volume has 70 articles devoted to hard-core computer science, advanced programming techniques, and the underlying mechanics of Perl. Here's a sample of what you'll find inside:
  • Jeffrey Friedl on Understanding Regexes
  • Mark Jason Dominus on optimizing your Perl programs with Memoization
  • Damian Conway on Parsing
  • Tim Meadowcroft on integrating Perl with Microsoft Office
  • Larry Wall on the culture of Perl
Written by 41 of the most prominent and prolific members of the closely-knit Perl community, this anthology does what no other book can, giving unique insight into the real-life applications and powerful techniques made possible by Perl. Other books tell you how to use Perl, but this book goes far beyond that: it shows you not only how to use Perl, but what you could use Perl *for*. This is more than just The Best of the Perl Journal -- in many ways, this is the best of Perl.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great book for the Perl enthusiast, 16 Feb 2004
By Nicholas Dunn (UK) - See all my reviews
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While it's not the best place to come to learn Perl or to learn Computer Science from scratch it does provide a huge amount of fascinating material illustrating all the traditional aspects of a university Computer Science course. It's made up from articles taken from The Perl Journal over a period of five years and so provides a very varied and interesting range of subjects, but it still sits coherently together as a single book.
Anyone learning Perl or seeking a simple guide to the basics would be better advised to start with an introductory text, like the 'Learning Perl' and 'Programming Perl' titles from the same publisher before moving on to this.
In some ways it's similar to the other O'Reilly titles, 'The Perl Cookbook' and 'Mastering Algorithms with Perl'. It follows the same approach of explaining the subject clearly, but in sufficient depth, and providing the relevant Perl code with suggestions on using the code in different situations. It is probably a better choice than the other two titles as it provides in-depth descriptions and explanations similar to the algorithms book along with larger chunks of functional code in the same way as the cookbook. The other advantage is the much larger number of articles and greater depth and breadth of coverage.
The readable style coupled with the range and accuracy of technical information make this a great addition to the Perl programmer's library.
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