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Perl 5 Unleashed Review by anonymous
Errors, mistakes, untested examples and foggy explanations
Do not buy. Typos, examples that don't work, examples that don't match the text and worse abound. As a Perl beginner, I found myself constantly looking beyond the book - changing the code to "what they really meant" and guessing about the gaps. The book leaves much of the important syntax a mystery. Finally I realized there must be a review of this book on the web. There is one by Tom Christiansen that, from my experience, hits it head on, was fun reading given my enormous frustration, and told me how misinformed I'd been even about features that "seemed to work". Check it out - the review, not the book - and laugh