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| | Amazon.com: Programming Perl (3rd Edition): Books: Larry Wall,Tom Christiansen,Jon Orwant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | First, it's an introduction to the Perl language for those who are new to programming; also, it's a guide for those who are coming from other languages; and, finally, it's a Perl language reference. |
 | | Among Larry Wall's other pursuits is being a linguist, and it's perhaps for this reason that Perl is a peculiarly flexible language with many routes to achieving the same ends, as the authors ably demonstrate. |
 | | Also, as it's largely interpreted, programs written in Perl tend to run unmodified on a variety of platforms--although platform-specific Perl modules and programming practices are also discussed. |
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