Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005 EAN: 9780596004781 Format: Illustrated ISBN: 0596004788 Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: June 09, 2003 Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Sales Rank: 514997 Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Product DescriptionPerl is a versatile, powerful programming language used in a variety of disciplines, ranging from system administration to web programming to database manipulation. One slogan of Perl is that it makes easy things easy and hard things possible. This book is about making the leap from the easy things to the hard ones. Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules offers a gentle but thorough introduction to advanced programming in Perl. Written by the authors of the best-selling Learning Perl, this book picks up where that book left off. Topics include:
Packages and namespaces
References and scoping
Manipulating complex data structures
Object-oriented programming
Writing and using modules
Contributing to CPAN
Following the successful format of Learning Perl, each chapter in the book is designed to be small enough to be read in just an hour or two, ending with a series of exercises to help you practice what you've learned. To use the book, you just need to be familiar with the material in Learning Perl and have ambition to go further. Perl is a different language to different people. It is a quick scripting tool for some, and a fully-featured object-oriented language for others. It is used for everything from performing quick global replacements on text files, to crunching huge, complex sets of scientific data that take weeks to process. Perl is what you make of it. But regardless of what you use Perl for, this book helps you do it more effectively, efficiently, and elegantly. Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules is about learning to use Perl as a programming language, and not just a scripting language. This is the book that separates the Perl dabbler from the Perl programmer.
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Rating: - exactly what it claims to be
This book provides exactly what it promises: a clear, concise, and complete explanation of how one uses objects, references, and modules in the Perl programming language. The didactic style does an excellent job of explaining concepts in straightforward terms, and maintains a light, conversational tone so that the reader doesn't fall asleep. For those who have a genuine interest in programming, and who enjoy learning new things, PORM encourages this and plays to it, to good effect. As a second ... Read More
Rating: - Important Note - Discontinued
New editions of this book are no longer in the works, as this title is being discontinued. O'Reilly's "Intermediate Perl" by the same authors (Randal L. Schwartz, brian d foy, and Tom Phoenix) is the new edition of this book. The first edition of "Intermediate Perl" was released March 2006. So if you're thinking about purchasing this book, purchase "Intermediate Perl" instead. It includes the same material (albeit updated) by the same authors. Once again, this title has been discontinued.
Rating: - "Evolutionary" method to explain Perl Structures, References, Objects
This book attempts something very interesting: not just to describe "how" central aspects of Perl work, but also to understand the process of "how Perl got there". Thus, the book does not serve the "conclusions" right away; it reaches them via a series of experimentations and improvements (in fact, similarly to what is done in other sciences).
To make it interesting (and humorous but realistic at the same time) the book presents a band of "software sailors", who write navigation software. They ... Read More
Rating: - Great book
This book is perfect if you want to expand your perl horizon. It only gets 4 stars because, hey, I can't give everything five stars.
Rating: - Definitely a Great Addition to any Perl Library
This book is great for just learning about OO concepts and their related functioning in Perl. Most of the other important Perl texts are very large and tend to summarize many concepts. This text takes Perl OO concepts and presents them in a very interesting and helpful format that is easy to follow. Perl is more than just a scripting language and this text helps you to understand this language from a different prospective.
- exactly what it claims to be
- "Evolutionary" method to explain Perl Structures, References, Objects
