O'REILLY PUBLISHES PERL TUTORIAL
Llama Book to Join the Camel Book

November 1, 1993 -- SEBASTOPOL, CA--In 1991, O'Reilly & Associates
published Larry Wall's and Randal Schwartz's Programming perl, the
definitive guide to the hottest UNIX utility to be written in years. So
popular has the book become that it is now known within the programming
community simply as "the Camel Book" after the dromedary on its cover.
O'Reilly has teamed up with Randal Schwartz once more to produce Learning
Perl ($24.95 US), which, in Schwart's words, "covers the middle two-thirds
of the perl language--enough to get your feet wet all over, but not quite
enough to be doing high diving."

Learning Perl (featuring a llama on the cover) is strictly a tutorial book.
It is based upon Schwartz's experiences of teaching week-long, hands-on
introductory Perl courses. The book contains a series of lessons
consisting of a "lecture" part and a "lab" part, represented by
explanatory text and then a series of exercises. It describes the most
useful features of perl, leaving out those that are highly specialized or
advanced. The author's goal for readers is, "By the time you've finished
reading the 200 page book, you'll be a mid-range perl programmer, with a
lot of weaponry in your arsenal for dealing with systems and
applications-level programs."

Perl is an acronym standing for "Practical Extraction and Report Language."
Created by Larry Wall, it is a language for easily manipulating text,
files, and processes. Perl provides a more concise- and readable way to do
many jobs that were formerly accomplished--with difficulty--by programming
in the C language or one of the shells. Even though perl is not yet a
standard part of UNIX, it is freely available in source form over the
Internet (and is also available on CD in both source and precompiled
binaries with O'Reilly's book/disk combination UNIX Power Tools) and is
highly portable to nearly any UNIX-like environment.

Learning Perl contains explanatory text and exercises on:

* ScalarData
* Control Structures
* Basic I/O
* System & User Functions
* Formats
* Directory Access
* Arrays and List Data
* Associative Arrays
* Regular Expressions
* Filehandles
* File Tests
* File & Directory Access
* File & Directory Manipulation 
* Process Management
* Data Transformation
* System Database Access
* User Database Manipulation
* The Debugger
* The Command Line
* Converting other languages to Perl
* Networking Basics

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Randal L. Schwartz is an eclectic tradesman and entrepreneur, making his
living through software design, technical writing and training, system
administration, security consultation, and video production. He is known
internationally for his prolific, humorous, and occasionally incorrect
spatterings on Usenet--especially his "Just another perl hacker" signoffs
in comp.lang.perl. Randal honed his many crafts through seven years of
employment at Tektronix, ServioLogic, and Sequent. Since 1985, he has
owned and operated Stonehenge Consulting Services in his home town of
Portland, Oregon.

O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES

O'Reilly & Associates is recognized worldwide for its definitive books on
UNIX, The X Window System, and the Internet. Working closely with
developers of new technologies, O'Reilly's editors are "computer people"
who use the software they write about. The company's planning and review
cycles link together authors, computer vendors, and technical experts
throughout the industry in a creative collaboration that mirrors the
strengths of the "open systems" philosophy itself.

Learning perl 
By Randal L. Schwartz, Foreword by Larry Wall 
274 pages; ISBN: 1-56592-042-2; $24.95

For a comprehensive and detailed guide to programming with perl, read
O'Reilly's companion book:

Programming perl
By Larry Wall & Randal L. Schwartz
482 pages; ISBN: 0-937175-641; $29.95

O'Reilly & Associates Inc
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