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Book review of 'Beginning Perl' by Ovid

Ovid takes an interesting approach. He attempts to fill the gap between learning a language and actually applying that knowledge for landing a job.

Most books on Perl teach the language itself, its constructs and how to use them, while the code examples and practical exercises re-enforce comprehension, but that can only take you so far.

They do not address the questions
'what do you do with that knowledge?', 
or 'which technical area should I focus on for landing a job?'

full review on i-programmer

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