Programming Perl

By Tom Christiansen, Larry Wall, Jon Orwant , Brian d Foy

Book cover of Programming Perl: Unmatched Power for Text Processing and Scripting

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When it comes to learning Perl, programmers consider this book to be the undisputed bible. You not only learn every nuance of this language, you also get a unique perspective on the evolution of Perl and its future direction. The 4th edition has been thoroughly updated for version 5.14, with…


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1 author picked Programming Perl as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book has been a companion for almost three decades.

Any bona fide bioinformatician will write some program scripts if only to reformat data in new and useful ways. Perl is not the most efficient or widespread scripting language, but it has the advantage of being highly flexible. It offers many ways to write a program to carry out a given task, so even computationally naive programmers can generate effective code.

Even though I am no longer actively developing software, I still have occasions when it is quicker to script something in Perl than do battle with larger apps.

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