This is a book for those of us who believed that we didn't need to learn Perl and now we know
it is more ubiquitous than ever. Perl is extremely flexible and powerful and it isn't afraid
of Web 2.0 or the cloud. Originally touted as the duct tape of the Internet Perl has since
evolved into a multipurpose multiplatform language present absolutely everywhere: heavy-duty
web applications the cloud systems administration natural language processing and financial
engineering. Beginning Perl Third Edition provides valuable insight into Perl's role regarding
all of these tasks and more. Commencing with a comprehensive overview of language basics
you'll learn all about important concepts such as Perl's data types and control flow
constructs. This material sets the stage for a discussion of more complex topics such as
writing custom functions using regular expressions and file input and output. Next the book
moves on to the advanced topics of object-oriented programming modules web programming and
database administration with Perl's powerful database interface module DBI. The examples and
code provided offer you all of the information you need to start writing your own powerful
scripts to solve the problems listed above and many more. Whether you are a complete novice or
an experienced programmer Beginning Perl Third Edition offers an ideal guide to learning
Perl.
