Intermediate Perl
Randal L. Schwartz, Brian D Foy, Tom Pheonix
O'Reilly, 8 Mar 2006
ISBN 0596102062
278 pages
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Intermediate Perl
As an occasional Perl programmer I was enthusiastic to read Intermediate Perl and wasn't disappointed. Perl is a weird language that lives on the edge between high and low level. There is no doubt that you can write tight compact and impenetrable programmes. Much of the first part of of this book deals with the tricks of common to all languages that allow the use of "pointer" or "reference" types- reference, reference to reference, dereference and so on. All good stuff but once you know the syntax all very straight forward. Of course if you haven't exposed to the same techniques in other languages then it will be new stuff and you will need to take it slow. The second half of the book is about object-oriented Perl and here I started to wonder if Perl's approach to the problem wasn't just a little over the top. I'm not sure I like object-oriented Perl, but this isn't a criticism of the book which does it's best to make it all seem very reasonable. Some bits and bobs about modules, testing, closure, functions and so on make the Intermediate Perl indispensable. There are lots of places where I feel that a slightly different approach would work better and present a simpler view of the Perl world, but overall this is a good book and something you need to read to move beyond the basics.Related Materials
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Biography
Randal L. Schwartz is a two-decade veteran of the software industry. He is skilled in software design, system administration, security, technical writing, and training. Randal has coauthored the "must-have" standards: Programming Perl, Intermediate Perl, Learning Perl, Learning Perl for Win32 Systems, and Effective Perl Learning, and is a regular columnist for WebTechniques, PerformanceComputing, SysAdmin, and Linux magazines. Brian D Foy has been an instructor for Stonehenge Consulting Services since 1998, a Perl user since he was a physics graduate student, and a die-hard Mac user since he first owned a computer. He founded the first Perl user group, the New York Perl Mongers, as well as the Perl advocacy nonprofit Perl Mongers, Inc., which helped form more than 200 Perl user groups across the globe. He maintains the perlfaq portions of the core Perl documentation, several modules on CPAN, and some stand-alone scripts. Tom Phoenix has been working in the field of education since 1982. After more than thirteen years of dissections, explosions, work with interesting animals, and high-voltage sparks during his work at a science museum, he started teaching Perl classes for Stonehenge Consulting Services, where he's worked since 1996. Since then, he has traveled to many interesting locations, so you might see him soon at a Perl Mongers' meeting. When he has time, he answers questions on Usenet's comp.lang.perl.misc and comp.lang.perl.moderated newsgroups, and contributes to the development and usefulness of Perl. Besides his work with Perl, Perl hackers, and related topics, Tom spends his time on amateur cryptography and speaking Esperanto. His home is in Portland, Oregon.Latest Offers
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