Perl for C Programmers

By Steve Oualline

Perl is a commonly used language in web development because of its powerful ability for text manipulation. This book covers Perl for C programmers. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073571228X
• ISBN13: 9780735712287
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Very good book for C programmers

I'm a C/C++ guy so I bought this book after seeing the title and browsing through it. It is a very good book. It goes over a lot of topics, comparing how C does things to Perl (each of which has advantages in different areas). The author writes in a clear and concise manner. He could go in more depth in certain sections, but overall I was pleased.

Speak Perl with a C Accent

After years of trying, I've finally learned Perl. And it's all thanks to this book. My biggest obstacles to learning Perl have always been: the language's twisted, almost willfully obscure syntax, and the chattiness, annoying humor, and equally obscure tone of the language's leading book for beginners, which I will leave nameless (hint: there's an animal on the cover.) It often seems as if both the book and the language...

Excellent book

I started a job where I was forced to use perl, this book became incredibly useful. I use it to write perl code that makes sense to me. Most other books I've read didn't get me nearly as far in as short of a time period. My background is C/Assembly programming, so this was perfect. I recommend it for those who want to learn perl, by choice, or not.