Programming PerlPerl is a powerful programming language that has grown in popularity since it first appeared in 1988. The first edition of this book, Programming Perl, hit the shelves in 1990, and was quickly adopted as the undisputed bible of the language. Since then, Perl has grown with the times, and so has this book. Programming Perl is not just a book about Perl. It is also a unique introduction to the language and its culture, as one might expect only from its authors. Larry Wall is the inventor of Perl, and provides a unique perspective on the evolution of Perl and its future direction. Tom Christiansen was one of the first champions of the language, and lives and breathes the complexities of Perl internals as few other mortals do. Jon Orwant is the editor of The Perl Journal, which has brought together the Perl community as a common forum for new developments in Perl. Any Perl book can show the syntax of Perl's functions, but only this one is a comprehensive guide to all the nooks and crannies of the language. Any Perl book can explain typeglobs, pseudohashes, and closures, but only this one shows how they really work. Any Perl book can say that my is faster than local, but only this one explains why. Any Perl book can have a title, but only this book is affectionately known by all Perl programmers as "The Camel." This third edition of Programming Perl has been expanded to cover version 5.6 of this maturing language. New topics include threading, the compiler, Unicode, and other new features that have been added since the previous edition. |
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LibraryThing Review
User Review - wweisser - LibraryThingThis book has more information in the first few chapters than most entire perl books. I am a big fan of the "logically break things down to every last detail" genre of programming manuals (see The C Programming Language, Programming in Lua) and this book is one of the great examples of it. Read full review
LibraryThing Review
User Review - jrep - LibraryThingExcellent reference work. It was better, back in the first edition, when the programming examples were co-bound, but it's really getting so huge (all the useful libraries) I can see why they don't do that any more. TMTOWDI! Read full review
Contents
Overview | 3 |
Bits and Pieces | 47 |
Unary and Binary Operators | 86 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Programming Perl |
| Authors | Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | O'Reilly Media, Incorporated, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0596000278, 9780596000271 |
| Length | 1104 pages |
| Subjects | › › Computers / General Computers / Languages / JavaScript Computers / Languages / XML Computers / Software Development & Engineering / General |
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