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Summary: Excellent for beginners to advanced
Review: After buying several Perl books at first, (Learn Perl in 21 days, the camel book, perl by example etc) I stumbled into this one. I wish I had seen this one first !! An excellent tutorial AND a reference book. Worth every penny ! (well ... I mean, every cent)
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Summary: Very good book
Review: After reading snippets of this book from time to time, and being frustrated and amazed at how many errors in how many code snippets could get through the editors, I finally turned to this website to see if others had observed the same problem. The first couple of reviewers hit the nail on the head. The index is a joke. The multitudinous typos in the code have me going to my machine just to check my understanding. It's become difficult to believe or trust anything in this book, but like one other reviewer said "Maybe that's a good thing." The book could be used for a contest - see how many errors are possible when the editors don't give a damn. Shame on you McGraw Hill for allowing this book to hit the shelves - you should do a mass recall - send in the front cover and get a corrected edition. It seems that the authors at times really know their stuff, and could teach a lot, but this is all foiled in error, after error, after error. I just got done reading a two page spread that had five code snippets - I believe three of these had serious printout errors. (I haven't confirmed this yet, but I'm getting tired of incorrect code.) Fire the editors, or whomever rushed this book to print, just to get shelf space - what a sad statement on American publishing - get that shelf space - I think that person should get out of publishing and go to work for Coca-Cola or Pepsi and let the book world alone. Terrible business practice. The other reviewers who give this a five star review are probably friends of the authors - sorry, guys, but this book with this edition should be trashed - it reminds me of the poor quality that TAB books used to put out - BTW, weren't they purchased by McGraw-Hill a number of years ago - could the same marketeers still be there - RECALL THIS BOOK MCGRAW HILL IF YOU HAVE ANY DECENCY - CONGRESS WOULD FORCE YOU TOO IF YOU WERE MANUFACTURING CARS!
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Summary: Some good material masked by many errors
Review: After reading snippets of this book from time to time, and being frustrated and amazed at how many errors in how many code snippets could get through the editors, I finally turned to this website to see if others had observed the same problem. The first couple of reviewers hit the nail on the head. The index is a joke. The multitudinous typos in the code have me going to my machine just to check my understanding. It's become difficult to believe or trust anything in this book, but like one other reviewer said "Maybe that's a good thing." The book could be used for a contest - see how many errors are possible when the editors don't give a damn. Shame on you McGraw Hill for allowing this book to hit the shelves - you should do a mass recall - send in the front cover and get a corrected edition. It seems that the authors at times really know their stuff, and could teach a lot, but this is all foiled in error, after error, after error. I just got done reading a two page spread that had five code snippets - I believe three of these had serious printout errors. (I haven't confirmed this yet, but I'm getting tired of incorrect code.) Fire the editors, or whomever rushed this book to print, just to get shelf space - what a sad statement on American publishing - get that shelf space - I think that person should get out of publishing and go to work for Coca-Cola or Pepsi and let the book world alone. Terrible business practice. The other reviewers who give this a five star review are probably friends of the authors - sorry, guys, but this book with this edition should be trashed - it reminds me of the poor quality that TAB books used to put out - BTW, weren't they purchased by McGraw-Hill a number of years ago - could the same marketeers still be there - RECALL THIS BOOK MCGRAW HILL IF YOU HAVE ANY DECENCY - CONGRESS WOULD FORCE YOU TOO IF YOU WERE MANUFACTURING CARS!
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Summary: Agreed with poor indexing... otherwise, GREAT book!!!
Review: As a graduate assistant, my professor made me to write tonnes (well, sort of...) of CGI script for the department. I first bought myself "Teach Yourself PERL 5 in 21 Days", which was a good introductory book. Later, I made the department to purchase me this book. Now? I wished I had bought this book first of all.
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Summary: Ditto
Review: Echo the same comments: + good raw material. Coverage on OO is very good, not just for Perl programmers but anyone interested in OO. One of the better intro to OO I've seen. - Yes, Index section sucks (editors are falling asleep on their jobs) - Yes, lots of errors (editors are falling...)Just by focusing on fixing the two minuses will make the next edition one of the better Perl books. Also, next to nothing in terms of coverage of OS interaction, networking, etc. Granted the book is pretty thick as it is, but calling it a "complete" reference is a bit of a stretch, IMO.
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Summary: Generally a really good Perl book but ...
Review: EDITORS WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!!! I think that the editors of this book should find another job - this book is full of typos and errors. Other than that this would be a great book (probably five stars if it had a better index). Anyway the material, the pace, and the writing style are all to my liking. Probably not great if you haven't already had some programming experience. I hope the next edition fixes the pile o' errors.
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Summary: The Best
Review: Excellent book, detailed treatment with good examples of interesting topics as PerlTk, interfacing Perl to Win32 applications, Databases and more.
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Summary: Excellent book, but lousy index
Review: excellent but lacks a decent index/table of content
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Summary: Wonderful book!
Review: For anybody who wish to study Perl, this is probably the only book you'll ever need. It covers beginning topic as well as the advance one.
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Summary: Good Reference Book But Error Prone Examples
Review: I am currently using "Perl 5 Complete" as a first exposure to Perl. The problem I have with recommending the book is that many examples that I work with do not run because of typos. What makes matters worse is that there does not seem to be any way of obtaining an errata sheet! I have contacted both the authors and the publishing company to no avail. Who takes responsibility?
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