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Title: Fine book, but with some major flaws
Review: It's a fine book. Obviously the one to get if you're serious about Perl.I have two complaints about it:1. It's overproduced, with too many footnotes. This style of writing is all too common in computer books, and one that makes them very hard to read. Nearly all of the footnotes in this book should either be in the main text, because they are relevant, or omitted because they are irrelevant and just clutter up the discourse.2. The index is terrible. Many keywords and other important Perl concepts aren't indexed at all. For one who doesn't have the language memorized, this is very inconvenient.But, even with these irritating flaws, the book is extremely valuable, and I couldn't imagine using Perl without it.
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