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Title: useless; will not teach you Perl
Review: This book is a reference, nothing less and nothing more. If you already know Perl and want a reference, you might as well get this one. It has a geeky mystique too it and a certain crowd will look up to you for owning it. But that's all it's good for. As a reference, it throws piles and piles of Perl special identifiers, syntax operators, and other stuff in your face without a single decent example. Even a master programmer will not learn Perl from such a presentation, any more than you can learn English from reading a dictionary. To actually learn the language, for those of us who buy books because we hope to learn something, try Learning Perl by the same publisher.
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