This journal entry is my working draft for eventually submitting a review as a story. My thesis is that this book is a solid addition for any Perl coder's bookshelf. Why?
-someone with experience in another language could pick this book and be productive fairly quickly
-plenty of useful code snippets
-section with usage summary for all of the standard modules
-sections on CGI gives you more than just what's in CGI.pm but form a good intro to CGI in general
Book details
Title: Perl in a Nutshell
by
Stephen Spainhour, Ellen Siever, Nathan Patwardhan
Second Edition: June 2002
Series: In a Nutshell
ISBN 10: 0-596-00241-6
ISBN 13: 9780596002411
Pages: 760
Current price at oreilly.com: $39.95
