Rating:  - my favorite computer book
This is easily the most useful computer book I've used. I refer to the Cookbook constantly, and it shows--the binding has come undone and the cover is falling off.
I would actually recommend purchasing this before Programming Perl, and after Learning Perl. The recipes provide quick solutions to common problems, but each recipe (and each chapter) includes a tremendous amount of background information and gloss. The wisdom of this approach is especially apparent if you take a look at the recently released PHP Developer's Cookbook.
Buy it.
Rating: - A bit like Meyers, perhaps
Coming from C++ to Perl, I consider this book as quite excellent.
It has a bit of same 'feeling' than Meyers's 'Efective C++' (At least the 1992 edition) but the overall structure is more concrete.
After mastering the 'Lama' and 'Camel' I have a feeling that this is actually the book that gets the things together. If you learn from examples of code, like I do, this book is for you.
However, a caution. THIS IS NOT THE FIRST BOOK YOU SHOULD READ ABOUT PERL. No way. For that, read the 'Lama' and then 'Camel'. But after mastering the basics in those books, on the level that you do not need to peek for books to implement common tasks, then go for this.
Also, I consider this book much more practical than Orwant's, Hietaniemi's etc. 'Mastering Algorithms in Perl'. However, to be honest, after the faculty of computer science of Helsinki University (YES. The home of Linux, among other things) removed the cumlaude course for Perl I just might have a little grudge against the faculty (Not against Hietaniemi, however, the keeper of CPAN and the designated lecturer of Helsinki's Perl course).
Rating: - A bit like Meyers, perhaps
Coming from C++ to Perl, I consider this book as quite excellent.
It has a bit of same 'feeling' than Meyers's 'Efective C++' (At least the 1992 edition) but the overall structure is more concrete.
After mastering the 'Lama' and 'Camel' I have a feeling that this is actually the book that gets the things together. If you learn from examples of code, like I do, this book is for you.
However, a caution. THIS IS NOT THE FIRST BOOK YOU SHOULD READ ABOUT PERL. No way. For that, read the 'Lama' and then 'Camel'. But after mastering the basics in those books, on the level that you do not need to peek for books to implement common tasks, then go for this.
Also, I consider this book much more practical than Orwant's, Hietaniemi's etc. 'Mastering Algorithms in Perl'. However, to be honest, after the faculty of computer science of Helsinki University (YES. The home of Linux, among other things) removed the cumlaude course for Perl I just might have a little grudge against the faculty (Not against Hietaniemi, however, the keeper of CPAN and the designated lecturer of Helsinki's Perl course).
Rating: - Most useful Perl book in existence
This is my favourite Perl book. Read the first two sections of Programming Perl, any section that deals with references, skim the rest, and start browsing the Perl Cookbook. The presentation of the varied problems and their solutions is wonderful and instructive. Most programming professors in college are neither as good at instruction, nor as pragmaticly helpful. If all you want is a book to swipe code from, don't bother; most of the book will be just extra weight. All the free code you want is on the net.
Get this book, but get this book because with each problem and solution set is a discussion of why the solution works, other solutions that are possible, and when to look toward a more robust and/or complex answer. Each chapter has ten or twenty pages that are dedicated to the programming bailiwick the chapter explores. The answers are well commented, and syntatic suggar is explained. The writing is not terribly dense, and a good sense of flow is maintained through out the book. This is one of the few technical books I own that I can just sit down and read for hours on end w/o getting bored or loosing steam.
I cannot praise this book enough. My copy is dog-eared, looks like it's been through a bad land war in SE Asia, and has tiny yellow post-its with titles marking sections I found particularly interesting or useful. With The Perl Cookbook, Programming Perl, Effective Perl Programming, Advanced Perl Programming, and Mastering Regular Expression (ack.), there are few situations a programmer can't handle. Buy this book, NOW!
Rating: - The most usefull book when i write perl program
The most usefull book when i write perl program,it's a solution for perl programming,both good toturial and reference
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