Perl Hacks
If you are not an advanced Perl Programmer then you probably wont understand the code that is in this book.
My Rating: 
Pros
- If you are an advanced Perl programmer then there may be something in this book that you don't already know
Cons
- This book is claims to provide something for both newcomers to Perl as well as experts but the way it is written I think only a perl expert could understand it.
Description
- First Edition: May 2006
- 273 page paperback
- Published by O'Reilly Media
- ISBN: 0-596-52674-1
- Tips and Tools for Programming, Debugging, and Surviving
- Author: chromatic (with Damien Conway and Curtis "Ovid" Poe)
Review
I have had enough experience with programming Perl that I wouldn't class myself as a newcomer. Also with my extensive programming experience in many different languages I did not expect that I would ever come across a programming book dealing with any programming language that I wouldn't be able to understand even if I hadn't come across the language before.
This book is the one that proved this assumption wrong as I still don't have much of an idea as to what the codes offered in this book are all about. Some of the code samples offered in the book look like they may be useful for Perl programmers to know about but the presentation of the material is such that you probably need a fairly extensive knowledge of Perl to understand what this book is talking about in which case you probably know many of these "hacks" anyway.
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