Learning Perl

First of all, it should be said that this book has about 320 pages. Furthermore, it is constructed as a consecutive administration in Perl. After studying all this stuff, you'll know the most basic operations and basic tokens occurring in the majority of Perl-programs. The authors did not set out to make it a complete guide to the language of Perl; on the contrary, that it is not grown to unmanageable large, we decided to highlight only those structures and features that you most likely will use the early stages of his career Perl-programmer. Nevertheless, as a prelude to a deeper study of the language in the book, we have included a chapter on major CGI-programming. It also addresses topics such as library modules, references, and object-oriented programming in Perl. We hope that it will arouse your interest in these more advanced topics. At the end of each chapter is given some exercises to help you practice what you have read about in this chapter. If you read at a normal pace and do all the exercises, you will be able to master each chapter for two or three hours, and the entire book - for 30-40 hours. We believe that this book should be used in conjunction with a complete guide to the classic Perl - Programming Perl, Second Edition, by Larry Wall, Randal L. Schwartz, and Tom Christiansen (publisher O'Reilly & Associates). Conceived originally as a language for the operating system UNIX, Perl now works almost everywhere, including MS-DOS, VMS, OS / 2, Plan 9, Macintosh, and all known species Windows. This is one of the most portable programming languages \u200b\u200bknown to date. Except for the few sections that relate to the management of UNIX-based systems of most of the information in this book is applicable to any platform that runs Perl.