Programming Perl (Nutshell Handbook) [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

The second edition of the Camel Book is more than 600 pages long and full of excellent instruction and sound advice. Topics include all the good stuff from the first edition plus Perl 5 features such as nested data structures (ever made a hash of arrays of hashes?), modules, and objects. From "Howdy World" to making your own modules, this book has it all.

Perl ist eine Sprache zur einfachen Manipulation von Texten, Dateien und Prozessen unter UNIX. Viele Aufgaben, die zuvor in C oder durch Shellprogrammierung gelöst werden mußten, sind in Perl unkomplizierter und übersichtlicher zu realisieren. Obwohl Perl noch kein Teil des UNIX Standards ist, sollte es doch inzwischen für fast jede UNIX Umgebung verfügbar sein. Das Buch enthält neben einer Einführung und einem Überblick über typische Konzepte von Perl etliche Beispielprogramme, eine Sprachreferenz und weitere ergänzende Ausführungen zur Programmierung mit Perl.

This manual is a guide to perl - the scripting utility that quickly established itself as the UNIX programming tool of choice, and is now establishing itself as the World Wide Web programming tool of choice. Perl is a language for easily manipulating text, files and processes. It provides a more concise and readable way to do many jobs that were formerly accomplished (with difficulty) by programming the C language or one of the shells. This revised second edition contains a full explanation of the features in Perl version 5.0. It covers version 5.0 Perl syntax, functions, debugging, efficiency, and the Perl library. Also includes a Perl cookbook and a quick-reference card.

Why there are fewer examples in the 2nd edition than the 1st
A couple of readers have commented that there are fewer examples in the second edition of Programming Perl than in the first edition. This is true. Two entire "cookbook" chapters were taken out, and will form the basis of a separate book, which will be out later this year, under the title The Perl Cookbook. The reason we did this was that the book needed to grow considerably just to cover, in a reference vein, the new features of the language. To give comparable coverage via examples would make it even longer. So we decided to split it into two books.

Larry Wall is one of the associates of O'Reilly & Associates; in his copious free time :-) he has authored some of the most popular free programs available for UNIX, including the rn news reader, the ubiquitous patch program, and the Perl programming language. He's also known for metaconfig, a program that writes Configure scripts, and for the warp space-war game, the first version of which was written in BASIC/PLUS at Seattle Pacific University. By training Larry is actually a linguist, having wandered about both U.C. Berkeley and U.C.L.A. as a grad student. (Oddly enough, while at Berkeley, he had nothing to do with the UNIX development going on there.) Over the course of years, he has spent time at Unisys, JPL, NetLabs, and Seagate, playing with everything from discrete event simulators to network-management systems, with the occasional spacecraft thrown in. (He also plays with his four kids every now and then, but they win too often.) It was at Unisys, while trying to glue together a bicoastal configuration management system over a 1200 baud encrypted link using a hacked-over version of Netnews, that Perl was born. Tom Christiansen is a freelance consultant specializing in Perl training and writing. After working for several years for TSR Hobbies (of Dungeons and Dragons fame), he set off for college where he spent a year in Spain and five in America, dabbling in music, linguistics, programming, and some half-dozen different spoken languages. Tom finally escaped UW-Madison with B.A.s in Spanish and computer science and an M.S. in computer science. He then spent five years at Convex as a jack-of-all-trades working on everything from system administration to utility and kernel development, with customer support and training thrown in for good measure. Tom also served two terms on the USENIX Association Board of directors. With over fifteen years' experience in UNIX system administration and programming, Tom presents seminars internationally. Living in the foothills above Boulder, Colorado, surrounded by mule deer, skunks, and the occasional mountain lion and black bear, Tom takes summers off for hiking, hacking, birding, music making, and gaming. Randal L. Schwartz is an eclectic tradesman and entrepreneur, making his living through software design, technical writing, system administration, security consultation, and video production. He is known internationally for his prolific, humorous, and occasionally incorrect spatterings on Usenet -- especially his "Just another perl hacker" signoffs in comp.lang.perl. Randal honed his many crafts through seven years of employment at Tektronix, ServioLogic, and Sequent. For the past five years he has owned and operated Stonehenge Consulting Services in his home town of Portland, Oregon.