A "must have" for every Perl beginner...

I wish I read this book earlier...
In fact it's my only regret about this book...

This book is an absolute "must have" for every Perl beginner.
Teaching how to program safely, and to maintain/debug/clean Perl code is not an easy goal, but the author
(who is obviously someone who loves and knows Perl)
manages to do it in a simple and pragmatic style.

A lots of subject are covered too many to mention here
(you HAVE to read this book anyway ;-) )
but I'd like to point the chapter about "cargo cult programming" which will be highly useful to beginners to my mind
(So sad the cargo cult constructor isn't described too (you know the one using : my $class = ref $proto || $proto; ))

While oriented to the beginners (IMHO), the experienced Perl coder will also probably find some useful tricks.
(Useful modules, uncommon options or other pieces of code that increase your productivity...)

In short this book is pure "Perl Packaged Experience", save you hours of trial&error frustration and buy this book, you won't regret it...

Other Reviews

• Doesn't live up to it's hype.
• great if you inherit wretched old code
• Bad title, good contents
• A "must have" for every Perl beginner...
• One of the best Perl books out there