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Publisher O’Reilly
Author(s) Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour, Nathan Patwardhan
ISBN 1565922867
Page 674

Perl in a Nutshell strives to be a perfect set of socket tools for the active Perl programmer. By and large, it succeeds, providing endless and well-thought-out lists and tables on the language’s modules, flags, and extensions. The authors briefly address basic learner’s questions–such as the difference between a hash and an array–but these concepts are not the purpose of the book. (Those new to Perl would be better off with others in the O’Reilly Perl series, such as Learning Perl, while programmers making the switch to Perl can pick up the nuances of the language with Programming Perl.) This book is pure Perl reference, briefly covering Perl/Tk (for GUI Perl programs on Unix and Windows 95/NT) and Perl for Win 32.

The authors do start at the very beginning, and even in a self-described “desktop quick reference” find the time to comment on less urgent–but still interesting–Perl-related matters (like how to find online help amidst the “Perl culture”). The format of the book makes sections on topics such as Perl debugging easily understandable, illustrating how to make an interactive and timesaving environment.

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