Title: verbose and over rated
Product review: I got this book because it was highly recommended by two PERL experts, Tom Christiansen, and the author of EFFECTIVE PERL.But this 300 page book is written as if it were a novel and not a technical book. It could easily have been half the length, and I'm not exagerating. The long chapter on how NFAs & DFAs work will be of interest to few people.I expected to learn all sorts of cool tricks via regular exppressions and was dissapointed. Sure there are a few good examples, but at far too high a price in time involved and money.This book will only be of use to the very few people who are really into NFA theory. For most people, this is a wasteful book. Its possibly the worst, least useful technical book Ive read.
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