Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 985 pages
- Published by: McGraw-Hill Companies June 8, 2000
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0072126302
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0072126303
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Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.5 x 2.1 inches
- Weighs: 3.7 pounds
Product Review
Perl is widely available across the various platforms that drive the Web, yet many developers overlook this powerful programming language. Even those coders who have some experience with Perl might not realize the language's full capabilities. In
Perl Developer's Guide, authors Ed Peschko and Michele DeWolfe expand their readers' knowledge of Perl to leverage fully the powerful tool.
This title follows a rather traditional path in presenting the programming language. It begins with an overview and proceeds through the mechanical constructs of Perl: variables, expressions, data structures, and functions. The coverage is quite good, but this systematic approach and rather small type demand a dedicated reader. Those who hang in there, however, will come away with a well-rounded command of Perl.
A good amount of the text is devoted to the use of object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques as they apply to Perl. To illustrate OOP concepts, the authors take the reader through the construction of a board game called
Stratagem and show how to convert procedural code into object-oriented code by using telnet and FTP scripts.
If you're looking to explore fully the capabilities of Perl up to version 5.6, this book holds the key. A bit of patience and genuine curiosity on the reader's part are the only prerequisites.
--Stephen W. Plain Topics covered: Perl 5.6 environment setup, variables, control structures, functions and scope, contexts, references, object-oriented programming, libraries and modules, abstraction and modular programming, converting procedural code, Perl development environment, and debugging tips.
Book Description
Developers will get hands-on knowledge of the latest version of Perl. Perl Developer's Guide has hundreds of examples showing solutions to real-world problems to reinforce learning. Professional development guide with 300 diagrams showing Perl concepts. CD-ROM--Install Perl, source code for book, and on-line Perl documentation with the included installer. Keep constantly up to date - install via online connection or via snapshot on compact disc.
Reader Reviews
This is one of the good books available in the market for a Perl Programmer. It has a lot of content, and if you take the font-size into account (fonts are small), you have lots to read. Perl programmers for the Windows platform would find this book to be pretty interesting. However, the authors could have done more justice if they could have given short but lucid examples to prove their point. Many a times, they either quickly digressed from their examples, or would have given some glib remarks about an important example. I would have given this book more than 3 stars, but for the numerous typos and other minor errors which have been overlooked by the authors. At one point the authors, proudly proclaim that they had used Perl's Regular-Expressions to edit the book (???). Nevertheless, I am sure the authors would notice the typos and minor mistakes that is rampant in this book and take remedial action in future editions. Perl being an idiosyncratic and idiomatic language, there should not be room for such syntactical errors which confounds the reader all the more. Despite these reservations, I would enthusiastically recommend this book to any Perl programmer, particularly Windows users, as a guide and reference.
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