Title: Good for beginners
Product review: [A review of the SECOND EDITION 2004]A favourite scripting language of many programmers. Holzner offers an update to his successful first edition on Perl. Here, he talks about Perl 5.8. As a bonus, he offers informal glimpses of the upcoming Perl 6.If you're not interested in Perl 6 for now, and already know the language, then this book is unnecessary. But if you are new to Perl, the book will be a concise guide. The examples are simple and short. Towards the end are subroutines of moderate complexity. All typically less than 100 lines.One thing to note is that the book doesn't expound on higher levels of structured programming. If you have a problem that might require a Perl solution of say 1000 lines or more, then how to tackle this, and decompose the problem into more amenable parts is not discussed here. This book caters to teaching the syntax and simple applications that rest directly atop this syntax.
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