Book Excerpts:

Perl is a well-established programming language that has been developed through the time and effort of countless free software programmers into a powerful tool that can be used on practically every operating system in the world. Perl started out as the "Swiss army knife" of computer languages and was used primarily by system administrators, but over time it's grown into a robust language used by web-developers and programmers worldwide. It's also a great way to learn programming techniques and develop your own style of coding.

"There's more than one way to do it" is the motto of Perl, but this book aims to take readers through them all. This book will take readers from installation, through the core language elements - regular expressions, references, modules and the like - and onto basic applied techniques. Readers will see how to access and work with databases in Perl, write CGI scripts to generate web pages and beyond. Coverage is using Perl 5.6 in all of examples and there's a reference section in the back.

Intended Audience:

This book is for those new to programming who want to learn with Perl. Readers will find it easier if they already have some basic programming experience, but the material covered can be mastered by anyone with just a text editor, some common sense and a computer. For those who want to learn how to program with Perl and then find out far they can go with it, this is the book for them.

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:? "It's not perfect and falls a little short occassionally in the area of being pro-active. By this I mean there are some areas where the author could have emphasised things a bit more."