in reply to Are these Perl books adequate?

Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web (2nd Ed)

This is the only book I've actually looked over on your list. From my initial impression, it sucks. Never uses strict, doesn't make use of CGI.pm or even cgi-lib.pl. It's a wonderful book if you aspire to be the next Matt Wright.

Keep in mind that I only glanced over it. I consider strict to be something very fundamental that should be covered in the first (or at least the second) chapter of any Perl programming book, so its lack of it is a good indicator of the quality of the rest of the book, IMNHO.

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Re: Re: Are these Perl books adequate?
by davorg (Chancellor) on Jun 10, 2003 at 09:55 UTC

    Did you notice the part where the poster mentioned they were talking about the second edition. This is a completely different book and addresses all of your criticisms.

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