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Title: A reference book for perl/unix experts only!
Review: Indispensible as a reference book, but a poor choice if you are just starting out with perl. The geeky attempts at humor and general tone of "look how clever we are" frequently get in the way of explaining the concepts at hand, apart from being very tiresome. Chapter 4 on references and nested data structures is particularly obscure.
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