Rating:  - Best of them all.
Hands down the best Perl book available. Excellent examples, excellent descriptions and overall a well thought out book. Anyone planning to write Perl should own this book.
Rating:  - Good Perl Cookbook
This is not the book you need to read page by page. For my own experience, whenever I find the Perl tasks I need to work out, I would look up this book as the reference. Very comprehensive book provide almost every Perl application in different aspects. Becasue this is not a stand-alone book, you need to buy another Perl book for cross reference. Worth buying.
Rating: - A Fantastic Book for Perl Programmers of All Levels
The idea of the Perl Cookbook was to give programmers of all levels ideas and techniques to improve their programming skills. This is a rather grand undertaking, yet I must say that this book really does the job well.
Each chapter focuses on a particular aspect of Perl (such as arrays, hashes, or CGI) and presents "recipes" of various levels of complexity to do various tasks. What is most impressive is that these recipes are geared toward real-life problems that Perl Programmers face. I can testify to the usefulness of this book because I find myself referring to it again and again when I need to do something in Perl I am not already familiar with.
I truly believe that every serious Perl programmer must have this book whether for work or for home use. It is truly indispensible for nearly every kind of Perl programming issue you might encounter.
Rating: - absolutely useful
This is actually one of the best perl book I ever acquired.
We are a group of professionals working on the field, and this book is regularly missing from the shelf.
It is very quick and easy to find simple solutions to common problems.
Rating: - Useful for those who don't program Perl every day
I get busy at work. Sometimes months pass before I get a chance to do someting fun in Perl. That's where this book comes in. Gets you back up to speed in a couple minutes. It saved me alot of time.
Your boss will be impressed. He won't care if you came up with all the algorithms or got them from this book. He will care that you got it done fast.
This is a must-have book for intermittent perl hackers. It's on my shelf with some other excellent O'Reilly books.
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