Beginning Perl (Programmer to Programmer)

By Peter Wainwright and Simon Cozens

This book aims to give existing Perl programmers more detailed knowledge of some of the more advanced elements of the language. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861003145
• ISBN13: 9781861003140
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 700 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.5" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

One of the Best manuals

I have been a part-time Perl coder over the last ten years and have around 15 Perl and Perl related manuals. I purchased this book back in 2000 and still use it today. When I compare my other manuals with this one, there is really no comparison. The book has a way of explaining and using examples to direct the user to create basic yet effective working perl scripts. Far too many Perl manuals jump from the very basic examples...

Cozens is the man

There is a second edition by the same title coming out, but without Simon Cozen listed as an author. Cannot say whether the 2nd edition is any good, but the out-of-print 1st edition is excellent. The first edition can be found online. I believe Simon is going to take a break from writing for a while. I hope he finds his way back to writing about Perl eventually.

Great way to learn PERL 5.61

Update 04-24-08: I will likely be dusting this book off and bring it in to work. The notes I wrote in it make it invaluable to me. There is a new version too. Ultra Edit is a good text editor and only costs $50 for the latest and greatest text version of the program. I spent a year with the book and went through almost every chapter in detail. I typed in nearly every chapter, wrote notes in the book, etc. It's not perfect...