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Intermediate Perl

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Book Description
Perl is a versatile, powerful programming language used in a variety of disciplines, ranging from system administration to web programming to database manipulation. One slogan of Perl is that it makes easy things easy and hard things possible. Intermediate Perl is about making the leap from the easy things to the hard ones.

Perl Medic: Transforming Legacy Code

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Perl ranks among hackers’ favorite languages–there’s always another approach to a problem, always optimization to be done, and forever new techniques to try. Perl’s a hoot. But the culture of tinkering that surrounds Perl has resulted in a large body of hard-to-understand legacy code. That legacy code has to be maintained, extended, and adapted to new conditions–often without the help of the person who originally created it. Perl Medic considers Perl from the perspective of a programmer looking at code written by someone else and trying to answer the ancient question: “What were they thinking?”

Pro Perl Debugging

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Combining the best features of C, UNIX utilities, and regular expressions, Perl has grown as one of the most powerful and popular scripting languages. The valuable Perl is often used for system administration, text processing and Web programming. It is even being used for more exotic areas, like bioinformatics. Perl is supported by all of the most prominent operating systems, including Windows, Unix, OS/2, Amiga, and others.

Real World SQL Server Administration with Perl

Posted by GaQuay under Database, Perl

Book Description
SQL Server Administration with Perl significantly empowers SQL Server database administrators and developers with Perl scripting techniques and takes SQL Server administration to the next level. This book is about solving SQL Server administrative problems with Perl. SQL Server Administration with Perl consists of a series of scenarios covering a wide range of SQL Server administrative topics. These are real-world scenarios that you hear DBAs discussing on the SQL Server forums and newsgroups-scenarios that DBAs run into in their day-to-day development or production environments.

Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs

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Review
It’s well writteneveryone who claims to be an expert ought to read itthese techniques allow programmers to accomplish far more than they’re used to.
Gregory V. Wilson, Dr. Dobb’s Journal, November 2005

It is, quite simply, one of the best books on programming I have read for a long time.Martin Schweitzer, Computing Reviews, Association for Computing Machinery, July 2005