Average Customer Review: 
"Effective Perl Programming" is a *very* useful book, well-written, with transparent examples. It is recommended for intermediate and advanced programmers. My scripts indeed started to run (and look) better after using just several of the numerous techniques described in this book! "Effective Perl Programming" occupies the niche left previously empty in the Perl literature. It is different from its closest counterpart, "Perl Cookbook", in the following aspects. "Effective Perl Programming" describes a smaller number of very highly versatile techniques. Also, the small format, modular structure and clear style of "Effective Perl Programming" allows one to read it anywhere, in addition to using it as a great desk book.
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The day I got this book, I turned to page 1 and started reading. Two hours later, I had made it only to page 80. Why? Because this book is DENSE and FULL of tips and tricks that will expand the horizons of the intermediate programmer. I spent a lot of time studying the numerous examples in order to soak up all the information that was being presented.I've been programming with Perl since 1992 and teach it at a community college. And yet with every turn of the page, I learned something new. Examples: Making regular expressions more efficient Using map() and grep() How to call a subroutine from inside a string Great stuff! The techniques I've learned from this book have been incorporated into my new Perl scripts and they are shorter and faster than ever before. I can't lavish enough praise on this book. Authors Joseph Hall and Randal Schwartz should be commended. If you have been using Perl for some time and want to hone your skills, get this book now.
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I've been using Perl casually for a few years now, but when I first got this book six months ago, I sort of skimmed through it and didn't find anything too interesting. But when I started doing a few Perl projects, I kept thinking, "Hey, didn't that book say something about a better way to do this?" So I'd look it up, and an elegant solution to my problem would be there. It's not that I couldn't have done it without the tip, because as all Perl programers know, "There's More Than One Way To Do It", but it taught me a cleaner way than I would have done otherwise.Most tips are no longer than a few pages, and they are neatly organized by topic ("Regular Expressions", "Subroutines", etc.) in the index. Highly recommended for the semi-experienced Perl programmer who is looking to polish their programming skills.
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