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Get a clear roadmap for improving your skills with Intermediate Perl, and gain working knowledge of Perl's objects, references, and modules—ingredients that make the language so versatile and effective. Written by the authors of the bestselling Llama book, Learning Perl, and updated for Perl 5.14, this book offers a gentle but thorough introduction to intermediate programming in Perl.

Reviews

On Nov 18 Tuomo Kalliokoski wrote:
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Rating: 4.0

On Oct 28 Bob Belderbos wrote: Intermediate Perl by Schwartz/Foy/Phoenix; O’Reilly Media
After having learned the basics in Learning Perl (“Llama book”), Intermediate Perl takes you to the next level. It is aimed at doing more serious development work (over 1000 lines of code). Hence it introduces the more advanced concepts as complex data structures, references, packages and OOP. Structure This book… Full Review  >

Rating: 4.0

On Oct 9 Michal Konrad Owsiak wrote: Good read, but sometimes too complex
I think this book is really a good read. If you like the style of Learning Perl you will like this book as well. Full Review  >

Rating: 4.0

On Sep 30 Dirk Deimeke wrote: Vom Perl-Skripter zum Perl-Programmierer
Nicht für Anfänger geeignet, beginnt es da, wo Learning Perl aufhört. Es vermittelt Inhalte, die benötigt werden, um grössere Programme zu schreiben und "echt und wirklich" zu programmieren und nicht nur zu skripten. Full Review  >

Rating: 5.0

On Aug 24 Surachart Opun wrote: Improve Your Perl with Intermediate Perl
:) I like this book when I finished each chapter, I can do Exercise and then check an answer in Appendix. You are supposed to do Exercise also, that will helpful for you to understand each chapter. Full Review  >

Rating: 5.0

On Aug 16 Mat Powell wrote: Giving Perl a Fair Shot
When I obtained my copy of the updated Intermediate Perl from O’Reilly, I was pretty stoked. For awhile, i’ve really wanted to give perl another serious shot (some of my colleagues swear by it), and I figured this would be a great time to do that. Full Review  >

Rating: 4.0

On Aug 16 Andrew Colin Kissa wrote: Book Review: Intermediate Perl, 2nd Edition By Brian d Foy, Tom Phoenix, Randal L. Schwartz
Written as the followup to the "Llama book" this book introduces more advanced concepts of the Perl programming language to take you from writing simple scripts to larger programs that are split up into modules as well as contributing such modules to the community via CPAN. The concepts covered include modules, references, objects, testing and contributing to CPAN. Full Review  >

Rating: 5.0