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Advanced Perl Programming Review by Steven W. Hirsch
A trashing of the first edition ..........
This is a blatant misrepresentation of the excellent first edition of this book: Advanced Perl Programming. It's as if they published a 2nd edition of GoF Design Patterns but it was written by the Three Stooges and contained a rambling account of Moe, Larry, and Curly trying to implement an HTML parser. If fact that would have been a better book than this! Most of this book is filled with lists of parsing modules but with no coherent thread of discussion about how to use these modules to do anything besides trivial parsing of simple documents! The only reason this gets 2 stars is due to the very first chapter which is a decent discussion of "advanced techniques" such as introspection and a very brief discussion of perl internals. However after that you can use the rest of this atrocity to wipe your ass with......