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  <default-description>With this book, readers learn a carefully designed subset of the language called &quot;Minimal Perl,&quot; which was developed through five years of experience in training software professionals at major corporations. It makes Perl more accessible to those having UNIX/Linux skill levels ranging from elementary to expert, by capitalizing on their existing knowledge of important utilities (grep, awk), or essential concepts (filters, command substitution, looping). Dozens of detailed programming examples are shown, drawn from contemporary application areas such as system administration, networking, web development, databases, finance, HTML, CGI, and text analysis.</default-description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lots of examples and a good reference to have.  I was hoping that &quot;Minimal Perl&quot; meant that I could get a lot done with only minimal perl skills, but it's actually a reference to the amount of code you need to write compared to traditional shell scripting.  In other words, if it takes me 2...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17602644">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book is entertaining, very detailed, and filled with TONS of information.  kind of heavy for a perl newb like myself - probably gonna have to come back to this one.]]></body>
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