I can certainly understand why at least one of the authors of Programming Perl might be considered "God" when it comes the the book's subject matter. If you're going to slam it, you might want to come up with something a bit less nit-picky than the fact that the chapter is called Pattern Matching instead of Regular Expressions.

While it is true that many of the O'Reilly books are in the get s___ done format as opposed to the overly theoretical, that is certainly not a blanket description of their catalogue. As much as I love Knuth's work, it's not something that I keep in my cubby hole at work when I need to figure out why my DHTML isn't working in Netscape 4.05, or what JavaScript method I need to talk between browsers or how to hack out a quick Perl script for porting a bunch of botched CSV files over to Oracle. Theory is great for my enlightenment, but I get paid to solve "particular problem"s. O'Reilly has been very very good to me it that regards. 

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