Ravi writes "Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language) —
the language which was created by Larry Wall is arguably one of
the greatest programming languages. But it has a reputation for
taking an excessive cryptic nature which gives it an image
especially among Perl novices as a language which is complex and
hard to master. Minimal Perl: for Unix and Linux people,
authored by Tim Maher and published by Manning Publications
addresses the obstacles presented by Perl's complexity. This
book which is divided into two parts comprising of a total of 12
chapters takes a unique methodology to explain the Perl syntax
and its use. The author emphasizes on Perl's grep, awk and sed
like features and relys on concepts such as inputs, filters and
arguments to allow Unix users to directly apply their existing
knowledge to the task of learning Perl." Read on for the rest of
Ravi's review.What I found while reading this book is that the
"Minimal Perl" is a specially crafted subset of Perl language
designed to be easily g