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Title: No help to me as a beginner
Review: Though this book has often been recommended as an excellent source for beginning programmers, I didn't get much from it after the first chapter.I found the writing excessively dry, the index substandard, the and the language very very opaque. The organization is also pretty haphazard. Quite often concepts are introduced briefly and off-handedly, but then dropped as "not quite ready" to be discussed, with no further reference given.Most of the examples used to demonstrate basics are either trivial or very abstract. A set of well-thought-out, useful examples are missing from this book, and if they had been included, would have gone a long way towards showing a beginner how to use this language.Generally, not up to O'Reilly standards.
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