Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133 EAN: 9780596527242 ISBN: 0596527241 Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 342 Publication Date: July 16, 2007 Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Sales Rank: 70355 Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Product DescriptionThis is the third in O'Reilly's series of landmark Perl tutorials, which started with Learning Perl, the bestselling introduction that taught you the basics of Perl syntax, and Intermediate Perl, which taught you how to create re-usable Perl software. Mastering Perl pulls everything together to show you how to bend Perl to your will. It convey's Perl's special models and programming idioms.
This book isn't a collection of clever tricks, but a way of thinking about Perl programming so you can integrate the real-life problems of debugging, maintenance, configuration, and other tasks you encounter as a working programmer.
The book explains how to:
Use advanced regular expressions, including global matches, lookarounds, readable regexes, and regex debugging
Avoid common programing problems with secure programming techniques
Profile and benchmark Perl to find out where to focus your improvements
Wrangle Perl code to make it more presentable and readable
See how Perl keeps track of package variables and how you can use that for some powerful tricks
Define subroutines on the fly and turn the tables on normal procedural programming.
Modify and jury rig modules to fix code without editing the original source
Let your users configure your programs without touching the code
Learn how you can detect errors Perl doesn't report, and how to tell users about them
Let your Perl program talk back to you by using Log4perl
Store data for later use in another program, a later run of the same program, or to send them over a network
Write programs as modules to get the benefit of Perl's distribution and testing tools
Appendices include 'brian's Guide to Solving Any Perl Problem' to improve your troubleshooting skills, as well as suggested reading to continue your Perl education. Mastering Perl starts you on your path to becoming the person with the answers, and, failing that, the person who knows how to find the answers or discover the problem.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Good, but not too essential for the experienced
This book is not essential, if you already have several years of experience with Perl, if you know who are Damian Conway, Randal Schwartz and Abigail, and if you know the meaning of weird words like CPAN, Perl Monks and "zero-width positive look-ahead assertion".
If you don't know what these things are, then with a little motivation you can find everything about them using Google without the need for this book. If this would be any other book about programming, i'd give it no more than ... Read More
Rating: - A Collection Of Perl Stuff
This should not be called "Mastering Perl" but rather, "A Bunch Of Perl Stuff We Didn't Know What To Do With So We Put Them In This Book." You will find some interesting things but this book will not help you Master Perl. If you are looking for mastery try "Perl Best Practices",
"Advanced Perl" (1st and 2nd Ed) and "Higher Order Perl."
This book has interesting pieces that you will learn from but it is mis-titled.
Rating: - Perfect Companion Perl Reference
'Mastering Perl' is another gem in the line of O'Reilly Perl books that hav continued to set the standard for over a decade now. From the original Perl references that simply discussed the language from the basics of variable declaration to the most complicated ways you can use Perl, O'Reilly has continued to add more and more and more. Many new revisions and editions to the original Perl books were made, 'Learning Perl' was released and now 'Mastering Perl'. Is this too many books, is this simply ... Read More
Rating: - Mastering Perl: at least a three (3) step process
The journey to mastering Perl requires at least three (3) steps :)
One optional route would be to read:
1) Learning Perl
2) Intermediate Perl... and finally
3) Mastering Perl
brian d foy mentions in his introduction and appendix A that the path to mastery involves learning from many people... and to learn from brian is an advantage. Appendix A is a list of Further Reading and by following up on many of these compounds the effect of the book. You get the bang for your ... Read More
Rating: - An excellent survey and a top pick for any Perl reference collection.
MASTERING PERL is third in O'Reilly's series of Perl tutorials and is a top pick for collections strong in computer programming in general and Perl in particular. This is more than a collection of shortcuts and 'tricks': it covers the basics of using advanced expressions, avoiding common programming problems, fixing code without editing the original source, and more, and offers Perl users the tools for getting the most out of the software - and troubleshooting when it doesn't work right. An excellent survey ... Read More
- Good, but not too essential for the experienced
- A Collection Of Perl Stuff
- Perfect Companion Perl Reference
