Learning Perl
In this smooth, carefully paced course, a leading Perl trainer teaches you to program in the language that threatens to make C, sed, awk, and the UNIX shell obsolete for many tasks. With a foreword by Larry Wall, the creator of Perl, this book is the "official" guide for both formal (classroom) and informal learning. It is fully accesssible to the novice programmer.Perl is a language for easily manipulating text, files, and processes. It is available for UNIX and other operating systems free of charge, and now comes standard on many UNIX platforms. Perl technical support is informally available -- often within minutes -- from a pool of experts who monitor a USENET newsgroup (comp.lang.perl) consisting of more than 40,000 subscribers.
Contents include:
- A quick tutorial stroll through Perl in one lesson
- Systematic, topic-by-topic coverage of Perl's broad capabilities
- Innumerable brief code examples
- Programming exercises for each topic, with fully worked-out answers
- How to access nearly any UNIX system operation through Perl
- How to use Perl with databases
From the cover of Learning Perl