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Title: Pretty Bad
Review: After getting hoodwinked into thinking this was a SOFTWARE PROGRAM to help you learn how to write perl, I tried reading it. (I couldn't return the book-- it was packaged as software and had already been opened)I am a technical writer by trade. Please, Mr. Till. Hire me! Hire someone! You're probably a good programmer, but you know nothing about approaching the subject from the beginner's side.The Introductory chapter discusses headers-- a topic WAY too advanced to start with for the kind of user this book supposes to teach. (Should be included in the book, just not so soon.)I've found the O'Reilly books (Programming Perl and Learning Perl) to be good material if you already know the language, but they don't offer a beginner's approach. Fortunately, they don't pretend to be beginner's books, as this mess did.Overall, a pretty poor book, really messed-up packaging/marketing. Turned me off of Sams' books for a while, at least.
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