Perl 5 How To: The Definitive Perl Programming Problem Solver

Abstract

Gillespie reviews "Perl 5 How To: The Definitive Perl Programming Problem Solver," by Mike Glover and others, and "Teach Yourself Perl 5 in 21 Days. 2nd ed" by David Till.

GLOVER, Mike & others. Perl S How To: The Definitive Perl Programming Problem Solver. Waite Group. 1996. 860p. ISBN 1-57169-058-1. pap. $49.99 with CD-ROM for DOS/Windows/UNIX.

Thom Gillespie ([email protected]) is Assistant Professor, Information Studies, SLIS, Indiana University, Bloomington, and an information system designer TILL, David. Teach Yourself Perl 5 in 21 Days. 2d ed. Sams. 1996. 870p. ISBN 0672-30894-0. pap. $39.99 with CD-ROM for DOS/Windows/UNIX.

Perl is an important programming language because of its web site use with the common gateway interface (CGI). It is not a particularly modern or fast language, but it is wonderful for doing text pattern matching, which is what most of the web is about right now. Perl 5 introduces a new object orientation, that is why these books will be constantly on reserve or illegally squirreled away at your system administrator's desk. Neither book is better than the other, and both books will be popular.