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Title: Poor Book for O'Reilly
Review: First off, I've had 6 years of C/C++, Perl, and a Little Oracle experience. After picking up O'Reilly's Learning Perl book, I was more than Dissappointed with this one. The chapters don't seem to follow any logical flow. Way too much concept and overhead for very little gain. They started explaining concepts and in depth details, before covering basic syntax. Most people who pick up these books have a basic understanding of programming, and are more interested in the syntax of a language. Once you know one language (the semantics), most other languages are fairly similar. Yet, the authors of this book wanted to explain inheritance (both Single inheritance and the ability of multiple inheritance via the implements opertor) when they haven't even covered the basic syntax of the language like strings and arrays. This is very illogical. It's almost as if they explained points a, and points F and tried to work their way to the middle.
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