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Title: Great at first glance, but actually not
Review: Perl by Example seems to be great at first glance, but actually it's not, when you read carefully into it.The author tried to use examples to illustrate her ideas. However, due to the enormous amount of errors in the examples, I can hardly trust them. I'm wondering whether the author has tried her code on a real machine. Or maybe the code worked at a certain point, but got changed during the author's revision or printing. Thanks to my background in C/C++, I can identify some errors easily. Yet there may be more errors that I didn't realize. Here are some of the examples in the book that either don't work at all, or don't give the output as described: Ex4.49, Ex5.12, Ex 6.21, Ex6.32, Ex7.5, Ex7.9, Ex7.18.Overall, I don't recommend the book to anyone taking Perl as the first programming language. If you have some background in other programming language, and would like to think about how to fix code in the textbook and play around, it's the book for you.
