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Learning Perl
by Randal Schwartz, brian foy, and Tom Phoenix
Preface Welcome to the sixth edition of Learning Perl, updated for Perl 5.14 and its latest features. This book is still good even if you are still using Perl 5.8 (although, it’s been a long time since it was released; have you thought about upgrading?). If you’re looking for the best way to spend your first 30 to 45 hours with the Perl programming language, you’ve found it. In the pages that follow, you’ll find a carefully paced introduction to the language that is the workhorse of the Internet, as well as the language of choice for system administrators, web hackers, and casual programmers around the world. We can’t give you all of Perl in just a few hours. The books that promise that are probably fibbing a bit. Instead, we’ve carefully selected a useful subset of Perl for you to learn, good for programs from one to 128 lines
(2011)
Learning Perl
Making Easy Things Easy and Hard Things Possible
by Tom Phoenix and Randal L. Sc...
Chapter 1 1 Introduction Welcome to the Llama book! This is the third edition of a book that has been enjoyed by half a million readers since 1993. At least, we hope they’ve enjoyed it. It’s a sure thing that we’ve enjoyed writing it.* Questions and Answers You probably have some questions about Perl, and maybe even some about this book; especially if you’ve already flipped through the book to see what’s coming. So we’ll use this chapter to answer them. Is This the Right Book for You? If you’re anything like us, you’re probably standing in a bookstore right now,† won- dering whether you should get this Llama book and learn Perl, or maybe that book over there and learn some language named after a snake, or a beverage, or a letter of the alphabet.‡ You’ve got about two minutes before the bookstore manager comes over to tell you
(2007)
Intermediate Perl
Beyond The Basics of Learning Perl
by Tom Phoenix, Randal L. Sc..., and brian d foy
Chapter 1 CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1 Welcome to the next step in your understanding of Perl. You’re probably here either because you want to learn to write programs that are more than 100 lines long or because your boss has told you to do so. See, our Learning Perl book was great because it introduced the use of Perl for short and medium programs (which is most of the programming done in Perl, we’ve observed). But, to avoid having “the Llama book” be big and intimidating, we left a lot of information out, deliberately and carefully. In the pages that follow, you can get “the rest of the story” in the same style as our friendly Llama book. It covers what you need to write programs that are 100 to 10,000 lines long. For example, you’ll learn how to work with multiple programmers on the same project. This is great,
(2008)
Learning Perl
by Tom Phoenix, Randal L. Sc..., and brian d foy
CHAPTER 1 Introduction Welcome to the Llama book! This is the fifth edition of a book that has been enjoyed by half a million readers since 1993. At least, we hope they’ve enjoyed it. It’s a sure thing that we’ve enjoyed writing it.* Questions and Answers You probably have some questions about Perl, and maybe even some about this book, especially if you’ve already flipped through it to see what’s coming. So, we’ll use this chapter to answer them. Is This the Right Book for You? If you’re anything like us, you’re probably standing in a bookstore right now,† won- dering whether you should get this Llama book and learn Perl, or maybe that book over there and learn some language named after a snake, or a beverage, or a letter of the alphabet.‡ You’ve got about two minutes before the bookstore manager comes over to tell you that this
(2008)
