Intermediate Perl by Randal L Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, Tom Phoenix, Brian D. Foy, Brian D Foy

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The Barnes & Noble Review
In Intermediate Perl, Perl legend Randal Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and Brian Foy pick up where their classic Learning Perl left off. If you can write a basic Perl script, this book will help you write code that’s far more powerful and useful.

Up front, you’ll master some Perl idioms that’ll serve you well and learn to make the most of Perl’s huge library of modules. (Later on, there’s coverage of building your own modules.) Intermediate Perl presents extensive coverage of references, including nested element references, scoping, subroutine and filehandle references, even recursively defined data. You’ll learn to work with complex data structures; use namespaces without causing collisions; make more effective use of objects; even do some fairly serious testing.

Sure, there may be “more than one way to do it” in Perl. But when these authors tell you how, you know it’ll work. Bill Camarda, from the May 2006 Read Only

From the Publisher

Perl 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. "Intermediate Perl" is about making the leap from the easy things to the hard ones.

Originally released in 2003 as "Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules" and revised and updated for Perl 5.8, this book offers a gentle but thorough introduction to intermediate programming in Perl. Written by the authors of the best-selling "Learning Perl," it 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

Testing Perl code

Contributing to CPAN

Following the successful format of "Learning Perl," we designed each chapter in the book 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.

"Intermediate Perl" is about learning to use Perl asaprogramming language, and not just a scripting language. This is the book that turns the Perl dabbler into the Perl programmer.

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