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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2762
EAN: 9781565924192
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 1565924193
Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 451
Publication Date: January 15, 2000
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Sales Rank: 189146
Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Rating:  - Write an outline before you start writing a book
Fairly good content, but hideously organized. The book jumps all over the place and really lacks the coherence I've come to expect from O'Reilly books. I used "Learning Perl" to get pretty good with Perl in two weeks. The book on HTML is terrific as well. A good "Learning CGI" book to lead into this one would be nice I think.
Rating:  - Great in it's day
When the first edition came out, it was an atypical O'Reilly book; they were known for publishing guides for working programmers, but this was more of an introduction to a topic instead of a reference.
The problem is that it's not 1998 anymore. The technology this book explains (quite clearly!) really isn't used that much anymore, save by people who already know Perl quite well and want to leverage that skill to simple web scripts.
PHP, Python, Java, and Ruby all come ... Read More
Rating:  - Strike one for O'Reilly
I was sorely disappointed that I purchased this book. I own just about every O'Reilly book on Perl there is and I grabbed this one off the shelf based on my past experience with the quality that I had come to expect from them. What a fool I was!
It has nothing new to add and isn't even that well written.
So how bad was it? I'm considering taking it with me the next time I visit my girlfriend (she lives within walking distance from their offices) so I can walk in and hand ... Read More
Rating: - After the errata, then what . . .
I've got the July 2000 printing and was amazed at the errata and the errata items yet to be "confirmed"! As an example of the latter, just beyond half-way through the book there's an address book cgi script some 10 pages in length of which only the first page or so is explained. The script is an attempt to use the Perl DBI along with the DBD::CSV modules (utilizing SQL statements) to explain the database role in "Data Persistance"! The problem is that the "getQueryResults" subroutine in the script ... Read More
Rating: - A good place to start
I purchased "CGI Programming with Perl" thinking it was, like many O'Reilly books, a bible of programming how-to for the working programmer. It's not. What it is, in fact, is a pretty good introduction to writing CGIs with Perl for someone who has some basic knowledge of Perl and HTTP, but who has never done any CGI programming. And that's just the position I was in when I bought it.
The first third of the book is introductory in nature, with an introduction to how forms and CGI scripts work, ... Read More
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