
In the days before personal computers, BASIC was the easy programming language to learn, and serious programmers learned FORTRAN or COBOL to do "real work." Today, many people have discovered that Perl is both a great beginning programming language and one that enables them to...

Perl is one of the most popular scripting languages in use today, a vital tool of experienced Unix system and network administrators and of web site developers. "Perl For Dummies is surprisingly intelligent?high praise for any description of this arcane syntax". --MacTech Magazine...