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Title: no longer useful
Review: This book is a waste of a good title, and I wish it would either go out of print, or be completely rewritten (in fact, there have been rumors that the latter will happen!). It was a passable early book on Perl, and it isn't so bad in and of itself, but it's useless to anyone nowadays, as the really interesting material that it tries to cover is much better addressed in Conway's excellent /Object Oriented Perl/.(To be fair, chapter 20 of /Advanced Perl Programming/ is a good overview of the internals of the Perl interpreter-compiler. However, that's of real interest to very few people.)Instead of spending their time and money on this book, learners are better off reading the other, more recent good books on Perl, and flipping thru modules in CPAN.
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