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Title: Not my style
Review: I found both the layout and the text of this book difficult to learn from. With its small visual chunks, my eyes had to jump around the page excessively in order to take in the information presented. The font size and colors didn't help readability.Also, it seemed like important points were glossed over while trivial details were belabored. For example, I couldn't find explanations of some of the perl syntax used in examples, yet anchor tags were explained step by step, where the first step was to 'type an opening angle bracket <', then 'type a href= ' ...and so on. This just seemed absurd to me, but I guess some readers aren't bothered by the uneven levels of coverage.I have since switched to "Learning Perl" by Randal Schwartz and "CGI 101" by Jacqueline Hamilton, and am much happier with these books.
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