Perl in a short trying to be a perfect set of socket tools for the active Perl programmer. (Those new to Perl would be better with others in the O'Reilly Perl series, such as Learning Perl, while programmers make the switch to Perl can capture 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 from scratch, and even in the "desktop quick reference" describe yourself to find time to comment on less urgent - but still interesting - Perl-related things (such as how to search in the middle of the online help that "Perl culture") . The format of this book makes sections on topics such as Perl debugging easily understandable, describes how to create an interactive and timesaving environment. Particular convenience is the outstanding part of the standard Perl modules. A "quick look" four-page allows you to easily scan through short definitions of all the modules and find the entry you are looking for.