Joseph N. Hall

I think I have a compulsion. I read every single Perl book I can get my hands on. Why? Because, in my humble opinion, Perl is the greatest programming language to ever cross my path. While it may not be the most optimized, it certainly one of the most flexible and liberating programming languages out there.

In Effective Perl Programming, Hall, McAdams, and foy present several tips, presented in a manner similar to the Cookbooks or Conway’s Perl Best Practices, each tip having a number, and each one being grouped by type (with a catch-all Miscellanea section at the end).

This book shows the reader the best way to harness Perl’s features, and the more efficient ways to wrangle the data that Perl so effortlessly scarfs down.

If you’re a Perl fanatic like me, I must say that your collection is not complete until you’ve procured this well written volume. If you’re just a regular Perl user, you’ll find countless pearls of wisdom buried within this books’ pages.… (more)