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Title: Brilliant book.
Review: This is a book whose brilliance is not in its authors' mastery of English. It is just the most eloquent book I've found on any programming language. After a certain point, you just want a book to lay out the language's syntax clearly; if you desire to 'grok' the philosophy of perl, you look at other books or read the preface. This book doesn't tell you how feature x is strong, or make jokes about how deprecated feature y is weak. It lets you decide for yourself, and gives pointers to other books that contain these comments. I of course don't recommend this as a starting text if you're a little new to programming, or don't quite understand what Perl is useful for.I don't know if this book needs more examples, but if it does, I hope they're placed at the back of the book. As it stands, this book is very clear and useful.
