Title: Gets you up to speed FAST.
Product review: I had been stumbling around Perl for a while now, modifying downloaded scripts and writing a small CGI script or two but I never actually sat down to _learn_ the language. Picked up this book based on the excellent recommendations here and it's definitely paid off. Burned through it in a day and by the evening I was finishing off my first real Perl script (with the next one started the following morning). Don't know how useful it is for non-programmers but if you have a programming background, especially with scripting, you'll find this an excellent way to get up to speed. It doesn't cover everything but it's not supposed to. It quickly lets you hit the ground running, and that's a good thing.
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