The authors do a good job of getting the concepts across, but this book is high on:



- Larry Wall. Ok, sure, he invented Perl and I'm sure he's a smart guy - but really guys, get over your love affair with him. It's really not helpful.

- Footnotes. For the love of god, stop it. Sometimes it seems there's more text in the footnotes that in the section that the footnotes cover. It's distracting at best.

- Perl. Sure, it's a Perl book and it's going to favorable to Perl - but - Perl isn't going to cure cancer, create world peace or create a 1000mpg car. Stop treating it like it's magic juice.

- Condescension. I personally get the feeling that the authors are riding a rather spirited moral high horse and if you don't agree with them, you're just not that smart.



They have good information and it's laid out well. The writing style and editing detracted immensely from this book for me.