Jon Orwant

After reading this book, I thought to myself: Why didn’t I have this back in college? Considering it was published prior to that, there was really no excuse, aside from just not realizing it existed. Granted, I would have needed to know Perl at the time, which I didn’t.

But, assuming that sygyzy, this book would have been perfect for helping me get through my college algorithms class with no sweat. While the text I used was fine, all the examples were in pseudocode. Since I now speak Perl as a second language, a book full of algorithmic education focused on Perl would have been right up my alley, getting me by with an easy A.

It’s a good resource from a non-academic point of view, too! If you program Perl, either at home or at work, and encounter problems that can be solved with some algorithmic goodness (and most problems can be solved this way), then you may find use in this book as well.

Be you an academic, a professional, or a hobbyist when it comes to Perl, you’ll find something for you in this book.… (meer)

Indeholder "Preface", "Part 1: Overview", "Chapter 1: An Overview of Perl", "Part 2: The Gory Details", "Chapter 2: Bits and Pieces", "Chapter 3: Unary and Binary Operators", "Chapter 4: Statements and Declarations", "Chapter 5: Pattern Matching", "Chapter 6: Subroutines", "Chapter 7: Formats", "Chapter 8: References", "Chapter 9: Data Structures", "Chapter 10: Packages", "Chapter 11: Modules", "Chapter 12: Objects", "Chapter 13: Overloading", "Chapter 14: Tied Variables", "Part 3: Perl as Technology", "Chapter 15: Unicode", "Chapter 16: Interprocess Communication", "Chapter 17: Threads", "Chapter 18: Compiling", "Chapter 19: The Command-Line Interface", "Chapter 20: The Perl Debugger", "Chapter 21: Internals and Externals", "Part 4: Perl as Culture", "Chapter 22: CPAN", "Chapter 23: Security", "Chapter 24: Common Practices", "Chapter 25: Portable Perl", "Chapter 26: Plain Old Documentation", "Chapter 27: Perl Culture", "Part 5: Reference Material", "Chapter 28: Special Names", "Chapter 29: Functions", "Chapter 30: The Standard Perl Library", "Chapter 31: Pragmatic Modules", "Chapter 32: Standard Modules", "Chapter 33: Diagnostic Messages", "Glossary", "Index", "Colophon".

Glimrende introduktion til Perl programmeringssproget. Der er små jokes rundt omkring, men også nyttige småprogrammer.
Desværre var det her en paperback udgave og den går i stykker i ryggen, når der har været brugt et stykke tid.… (meer)