Learning Perl, Fourth Edition
 

Learning Perl, Fourth Edition

by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, Brian D. Foy

"Learning Perl," better known as "the Llama book," starts the programmer on the way to mastery. Written by three prominent members of the Perl community who each have several years of experience teaching Perl around the world, this edition has been updated to account for all the recent changes to the language up to Perl 5.8.
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Member Reviews

  • SF_fan_mae
    • Rated 4 stars

    Read this to review Perl, since it's been 10 years since I'd written any. Don't skip the footnotes, especially if you are an old school UNIX/C programmer, lots of in-jokes to be found there. Great introduction to the language too, at least for those coming from a C or C++ background.

    SF_fan_mae wrote this review Tuesday, September 23 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Swapna P
    • Rated 0 stars

    the best book for perl

    Swapna P wrote this review Tuesday, November 20 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • anupaprem
    • Rated 0 stars

    This is the best book available to learn Perl for beginners

    anupaprem wrote this review Thursday, September 20 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • su_solocodigo
    • Rated 0 stars

    Easy to understand, it's an exelent guide for biginners

    su_solocodigo wrote this review Saturday, August 25 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • cramd
    • Rated 5 stars

    If your system run any Perl, or they will be, you need this book. More than a primer this is a handy tool for the seasoned Perl user as well.

    This book has helped make short work of several projects I have done, that without the book would have had me spinning my wheels for a while longer.

    cramd wrote this review Monday, November 20 2006. ( reply | permalink )
  • powerofslack
    • Rated 5 stars

    This book rocks. It gets you right up to speed with Perl, it has exercises so you can't fool yourself, and it's very thoughtfully organized. If Perl is the right language for the job (in my case that means the job is not a bunch of matrix calculations, PDL or no) then this is the book to start with.

    powerofslack wrote this review Thursday, November 16 2006. ( reply | permalink )
  • darren
    • Rated 4 stars

    Every systems administrator I know has this book on their shelf. Perl is a beautiful, wonderful, lazy (or not lazy), and practical programming language that I use constantly.

    darren wrote this review Tuesday, September 12 2006. ( reply | permalink )
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