Product Description

PERL in easy steps is an easy-to-follow guide that will appeal to anyone who wants to begin CGI scripting in PERL.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #312401 in Books
• Published on: 2003-11-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

About the Author
Mike McGrath is one of UK's most successful computer book authors and has extensive knowledge of computer languages while working as a developer contracting to companies around the world.

Customer Reviews

Avoid
This is one of the worst Perl books out there. The author really has very little idea of the best way to write Perl programs. Oh, you'll certainly learn some Perl from the book and the sample programs work in the way the author says they will, but show the example code to any Perl programmer and they will either laugh or cry. The author ignores the "warnings" and "strict" modules which are extremely useful in any Perl program more than a few lines long and he doesn't seem to know about the CGI library which has been bundled with Perl since 1997 - he prefers to use his own (buggy!) CGI handling routines.

The Perl you will learn from this book is full of bad practices and makes Perl seem harder than it is. Please don't buy this book.

....easy now!
The previous review is so damning - I have no doubt the reviewer knows his Perl, but if you've never used it before and see this in your local library (as i did) - and need to learn some basics it's ok (granted, you may need to re-learn things later so keep this in mind). made me think twice about buying a second hand copy of this...