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The perfect companion for working programmers, Perl in a Nutshell is a comprehensive reference guide to the world of Perl. It contains everything you need to know for all but the most obscure Perl questions. This wealth of information is packed into an efficient, extraordinarily usable format.
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- Basic language reference
- Introduction to using Perl modules
- Perl and CGI: CGI basics, CGI.pm, mod_perl
- DBI, the database-independent API for Perl
- Sockets programming in Perl
- LWP, the library for World Wide Web programming in Perl
- The Net::* modules
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Book details
Title:
Perl in a Nutshell
First Edition: December 1998
ISBN 10: 1-56592-286-7
ISBN 13: 9781565922860
Pages: 668
Average Customer Reviews: (Based on 7 Reviews)
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Perl in a Nutshell Review
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2002-05-30 18:11:32
Scott Weaver
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I love O'Reilly books. But this one, put simple, is a bit of a dud. If you are expecting the kind of quality you may have found in other Nutshell books (Unix in Nutshell for instance), you aren't going to get it.
Looking for a quick reminder of some weird syntax? You probably won't find it.
Looking for some good little examples of commands you havn't used yet? You won't find them.
Looking for any hint of style, humor, or insight? You won't get that either.
Looking for exhaustive lists of all the options of a particular module? Nope.
Looking for an attractive and seldom used paperweight? Here it is.
Perl in a Nutshell Review
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2001-10-25 06:02:16
Mancow rocks
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This book kicks *** plain and simple. It's an indispensable reference for ANY Perl Programmer.
Perl in a Nutshell Review
2000-01-29 00:00:00
Thomas Dworzanski
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This is a GREAT book. Let me tell you why I bought it.
When I had first decided I was going to learn Perl there were, or so it seemed, many options. After spending serveral weeks searching the web for a decent tutorial, one for a beginner with no knoledge other than HTML, and a little of JavaScript, I gave up. I eventually checked out the Perl books at the Borders by my school (I'm 15). After going over the serveral books I had chosen, and please keep reading after I tell you about this, "Perl for Dummies".
Reading "Perl for Dummies" gave me a general understanding of the Perl syntex, but I had no idea how, and where to use anything I learned. I mean, I couldn't write a script without bugs. Reference was almost impossible with a weak index and a book that covers about half of the Perl language.
Desperate, I went back to Borders and found "Perl in a Nutshell". With the help of this book and some sample scripts I picked up from several places on the web (check out cgi.resourceindex.com) I quickly learned how to use Perl, and in an effective way. I owe my knoledge of this great CGI language to O'Reilly.
Thanks for the great book, it lives on my computer and helps me all the time! By far the most helpful computer book I ever bought!
Perl in a Nutshell Review
1999-09-16 00:00:00
Cook
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This is a book whose brilliance is not in its authors' mastery of English. It is just the most eloquent book I've found on any
programming language. After a certain point, you just want a book to lay out the language's syntax clearly; if you desire to 'grok'
the philosophy of perl, you look at other books or read the preface. This book doesn't tell you how feature x is strong, or make
jokes about how deprecated feature is weak. It lets you decide for yourself, and gives pointers to other books that contain
these comments. I of course don't recommend this as a starting text if you're a little new to programming, or don't quite
understand what Perl is useful for.
Perl in a Nutshell Review
1999-06-03 00:00:00
Arthur Stevens
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I've been using perl since 95', this is the most overal useful book i've seen yet.
Perl in a Nutshell Review
1999-02-24 00:00:00
Grant Hopwood
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Well worth its reasonable cost!
Perl in a Nutshell Review
1999-02-24 00:00:00
A CGI/Perl programmer for the last 2 yea
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Please,
Can this book be made available ASAP? It's
really frustrating to see the date being pushed
forward every month.
At least you can shelve the whole project
like you did for the second edition of
'CGI programming for the World Wide Web'
by Shishir Gundavaram. I looked forward to that
too. But at least, I know that it is not going
to happen.
I like most of the things about O'reilly but
this is one thing which has annoyed me a lot.
Regards,
-Murali
Media reviews
"Perl in a Nutshell is everything programmers have come to expect{from O'Reilly}: clear, concise and no-nonsense information on the subjects which matter...for the workaday programmer who needs an elbow-side reference manual or the occasional coder looking for a memory jogger, this book is worth it's weight in gold." -amazon.co.uk
"maintains the exceptionally high quality of the O'Reilly Nutshell series." --Steve Coe, Canada Computes, Dec 2000
"Good reference for the Perl monger, a good way for the experienced programmer to start getting work done in Perl. Rating 10/10." --Andrew Gardner, slashdot.com, May 1999
