Computer Science & Perl Programming

Best of The Perl Journal

By O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Edited by Jon Orwant
November 2002
Pages: 758
ISBN 10: 0-596-00310-2 | ISBN 13: 9780596003104
(5) (Average of 4 Customer Reviews)

Book description

The first of three volumes from the archives of The Perl Journal that O'Reilly has exclusive rights to distribute, this book is a compilation of the best from TPJ: 71 articles providing a comprehensive tour of how experts implement computer science concepts in the real world, with code walkthroughs, case studies, and explanations of difficult techniques that can't be found in any other book.
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In its first five years of existence, The Perl Journal ran 247 articles by over 120 authors. Every serious Perl programmer subscribed to it, and every notable Perl guru jumped at the opportunity to write for it. TPJ explained critical topics such as regular expressions, databases, and object-oriented programming, and demonstrated Perl's utility for fields as diverse as astronomy, biology, economics, AI, and games. The magazine gave birth to both the Obfuscated Perl Contest and the Perl Poetry contest, and remains a proud and timeless achievement of Perl during one of its most exciting periods of development. Computer Science and Perl Programming is the first volume of The Best of the Perl Journal, compiled and re-edited by the original editor and publisher of The Perl Journal, Jon Orwant. In this series, we've taken the very best (and still relevant) articles published in TPJ over its 5 years of publication and immortalized them into three volumes. This volume has 70 articles devoted to hard-core computer science, advanced programming techniques, and the underlying mechanics of Perl. Here's a sample of what you'll find inside:

Jeffrey Friedl on Understanding Regexes
Mark Jason Dominus on optimizing your Perl programs with Memoization
Damian Conway on Parsing
Tim Meadowcroft on integrating Perl with Microsoft Office
Larry Wall on the culture of Perl

Written by 41 of the most prominent and prolific members of the closely-knit Perl community, this anthology does what no other book can, giving unique insight into the real-life applications and powerful techniques made possible by Perl. Other books tell you how to use Perl, but this book goes far beyond that: it shows you not only how to use Perl, but what you could use Perl *for*. This is more than just The Best of the Perl Journal -- in many ways, this is the best of Perl.

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Book details

First Edition: November 2002
ISBN: 0-596-00310-2
Pages: 758
Average Customer Reviews: (5) (Based on 4 Reviews)

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Immediately valuable, November 02 2008

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Submitted by Edmonton Linux User Group [Respond | View]

The other title is "Best of The Perl Journal," and there's over
700 pages from the former magazine series. We all know that the magazine
is no more, and has been for quite some time. That would make the material
dated - sort of.

When I cracked the book open, the first information I found was
immediately valuable to a project I was working on. I checked the table of
contents for some similar information, and found yet another article that
helped me out. Maybe "classic" is a more appropriate term than "dated."

I certainly agree that this is the best of TPJ. It's like the
Cookbook series, but so much more. Want to see just a little of what Perl
can do? This book will be a good read. It will be a companion for quite a
while before I finish it, and all the while I'll be looking for ways to
make my own work better.

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Computer Science & Perl Programming Review, February 29 2004

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Submitted by Anonymous [Respond | View]

This book is a real pleasure to read. The author gives just the right amount of details of perl programmig... Highly recommended!

Kate Lea

Computer Science & Perl Programming Review, December 20 2002

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Submitted by joseph [Respond | View]

Very well-written and informative. I've been coding Perl for four years now, and this text is one of the best I've seen.

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Computer Science & Perl Programming Review, April 05 2002

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Submitted by Scheer [Respond | View]

Uitstekend!

Media reviews

"I think all three would be a marvelous addition to any decent tech library - they seem perfect for a library as they have all the benefits of a five year collection of TPJ without the problems of magazine storage, cataloging and conservation."
--Tony Williams, Slashdot, January 2004
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/26/1938234

"All in all, a great read and a great reference to keep around. I would definitely advise anyone interested in Perl to pick up this set; you won't regret it."
-- IEEE and ACM Clubs at Colorado Technical University, May 2004

"The Perl community is amazing and some of its most eloquent voices wrote articles for this book. Reading their articles helps one see that Perl can be much more than a tool for simple shell scripts."
--Provo Linux Users Group, April 2004
http://plug.org/archive/000012.html

"The writing in the book is simply good; clear, accurate, intellectually coherent, and warm without being too cute. More than that, it's important--if you work with Perl, each of these articles illuminates at least one of the ideas you're likely to need in your own programming."
--Cameron Laird, UnixReview.com, February 2003

"The Bottom Line: These are the best Perl articles ever written...they cover almost everything you'll need to know about Perl...This book is a gem, and you won't want to miss it."
--Emmie Lewis, Perl.about.com, January 2003

"This is a great source of interesting stuff. Just browsing the contents and seeing the list of topics covered is quite amazing...this is all quality stuff. There is a very good mix of articles, with quite am impressive line up of authors. I would say that there is something for everyone here."
--Kevin Taylor, Northants Linux Users Group, January 6, 2003

"The Perl Journal was the authorative and timely source of accurate Perl information, covering every subject under the sun and then some. This collection of updated articles is a welcome addition to my bookshelf."
--Hildo Biersma, Dec 2002

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