From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Subject: REVIEW: Effective Perl Programming
Date: 13 Jun 1998 21:23:55 GMT

Effective Perl Programming, by Joseph Hall (with Randal as kibitzer)
and published by Addison-Wesley, is hereby awarded a rating of 4 Camels
on the Camel Critiques page found at http://www.perl.com/perl/critiques/ 

Here's the mini-review by Graham Barr included there:

		   Effective Perl Programming

	by Joseph N. Hall 
					with Randal L. Schwartz 

    (Reviewed by Graham Barr)

    The book is very well written and has content which will be of
    interest to the novice and the expert programmer. As well as giving a
    short introduction to perl this book describes many common situations
    and how they can effectively be solved using perl.

    This book also describes other areas of perl. I was pleased to see the
    chapter on debugging. Of all the other books that have been written
    about perl, none of them have covered this topic particularly well.

    The chapter on packages and modules will be of a great help to all
    those who are new to perl and want to use modules from CPAN. It gives
    a good introduction to what packages and modules are and how to get
    them from CPAN, build, test and install them. This was followed
    by another chapter on writing modules which I thought was a very
    good guide for those who what to develop modules. This chapter ended
    with details on how to submit to CPAN. Hopefully this will encourage
    people to do just that.

    The book also has what I thought was a thorough coverage of perl's
    object model and finishes with some interesting perl one-liners
    (which I am sure Randal had a lot of input to)

--tom
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