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Title: A terrible programming book I've ever read
Review: This is not a good book for a technical or a new Perl user. There's a few examples for new users and little programming information for experts. On the other hand, you can find a lot of unneccessary information about mathematic, philosopher, "love story" in this book. For example: to explain the filehandles: "Unless you are using artificial intelligence to model a solipsistic philosopher, your program needs some way to communicate with outside world"; to explain operators "..and as we know in studying math in school, mathematicians love strange symbols. What's worse, computer scientist have come up with their own version of these strange symbol... You could find hundreds of sentences like these in the book but you could not find a good example to tell you how to write a package, object class, etc. It' not worth the money.
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