- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 4 Sub edition (Jan 9 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0201419750
- ISBN-13: 978-0201419757
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.3 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 227 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #468,583 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Effective Perl Programming is a gem of a Perl book. Its author, Joseph Hall, is a well-known Perl instructor and frequent poster on the seminal comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup. The book's technical editor is none other than Randal Schwartz, noted Net personality and enigmatic author of Learning Perl.
Hall has distilled his years of Perl experience into a book for Perl programmers that is both fluid and fun to read. It's somewhat like reading the Perl FAQ; even when you think you know everything, there's so much you don't know.
Effective Perl Programming has a clear layout: the text is easy on the eyes and the mono-spaced font makes a clear distinction between backticks and single quotes. Hall uses his PEGS (Perl Graphical Structures) notation to show the difference between Perl's different types of data structures and how everything ties together.
Packed with great examples and code snippets, this book is an excellent source of tips and tricks to make your Perl programs faster and easier to read. You'll also find a strong section on using the Perl debugger to improve your Perl programming skills. In yet another section, Hall walks the reader through the creation of a complete XS module that can boost the performance of array shuffling eight-fold. All in all, this is a great book for programmers who want to move beyond plain, verbose Perl toward a more succinct and powerful coding style. --Jake Bond
From Library Journal
Perl is an amazingly powerful language that is especially useful for web work with Common Gateway Interfaces. This is not a book for beginners but for people who have some experience being confused by Perl. Hall discusses namespace, regular expressions, references, packages, and object-oriented programming. The goal of this book is not to write clear, legible, slightly verbose Perl code but "toward something more succinct and individualistic."
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
excellent,
By "kermit_1" (Middlesbrough, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs with Perl (Paperback)
As a previous reviewer said, this isn't a book for advanced perl programmers. For intermediate users, however, it is excellent. No time wasted covering the perl basics, just lots of useful tips and hacks
3.0 out of 5 stars
Just couldn't get into it,
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This review is from: Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs with Perl (Paperback)
There isn't realy anything wrong with this book per se. It does have some good ideas for Perl programming. I just didn't find it very interesting or even that useful. I stopped reading half way through.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Essential stuff you won't find in manuals,
By Egor Shipovalov (Moscow, Russia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs with Perl (Paperback)
The authors are long-time professional Perl trainers and it clearly shows: the selection of material, organization and presentation style are honed and distilled to be worth paying for hourly. The book is well-balanced beteween theory and practice being divided into several thematical chapters each starting with a short intoduction followed by concrete receipes, accompanied with examples. It's also very usable as a reference as receipes are clearly named and easy to find.If you got a basic hang of Perl and are starting to love it, get this book now. This is a rare one, teaching Perl beyond syntax and common module usage.
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