オライリーの本は難しそうなイメージがありますが、この本についてはそんなことはな<BR>かったです。むしろわかりやすく、読みやすい本です。ほかの人のレビューにもありま<BR>すが、CGIについてはまったくといっていいほどでていません。<BR>ソフトウェア開発に携わる人がよく行うような、テキスト加工などのユーティリティ（もし<BR>くはコマンド）のようなものが作れるようになります。Perlが本当に便利なツールとなる<BR>でしょう。そのPerlの入門するにあたって最適の一冊となっています。

This is a great learning book. It has many good examples. However, I was in two classes that tried to expand on the examples. It took excessively long to find small syntax problems. If you are used to "c" you can make one-liners with out using those curly brackets (braces), in perl you do not find out that this does not work until you try to run the program. Keeping with that thought this book is of very little help to anyone that does not already know UNIX scripting and concepts. In addition, if you are doing CGI and want pictures, there are some here.<P>On the positive side the book shows several good sites you can go to for detailed help. And maybe I am hoping for too much as the description of the purpose of perl is:<BR>“Perl is designed to assist the programmer with common tasks that are probably too heavy or too portability-sensitive for the shell, and yet too weird or short-lived or complicated to code in C or some other UNIX glue language.”