With the publication of MacPerl: Power and Ease,
MacPerl has escaped from the laboratory for good:
With a book and a CD-ROM to its name,
it has now undoubtedly become a bona fide product,
and with Vicki Brown's and Chris Nandor's excellent presentation,
I'm confident that it is now accessible
to a much wider range of users than ever before.
Matthias Neeracher,
MacPerl's author and maintainer
Congrats, you guys!
You've created a valuable reference for MacPerl users.
I'm going to put in an order today and recommend it to my friends.
Thanks for writing it and sharing your knowledge
with the MacPerl community!
You guys should be super proud of your achievement
and contribution.
Ben Ko,
Electronic Publishing Services Inc.
It is very generous of you to post an HTML version --
but I'll be near the front of the line to buy a printed copy
just the same.
(You just can't beat paper for a reference.)
Jeff Clites,
Online Editor
MacTech Magazine
MacPerl is a neat and elegant version of Perl 5
for the Macintosh.
The book and CD make an excellent package
for those who will be supporting Apple-
Scripts or AppleTalk
(or other Macintosh applications) and want to use Perl.
The book is terse, in the UNIX manual tradition,
but not difficult.
I liked it a lot.
(This is the same group who brought us MkLinux last year --
they're really on a roll!)
Peter H. Salus,
The Bookworm (August 1998),
;login: magazine,
USENIX Association
If you're on a Mac and want to learn Perl, you want this book.
It's specifically geared for you,
written from an Apple perspective throughout.
The prose is clean, and the typesetting refreshingly direct
and easy to read,
free of annoying artifacts ...
[Four Camels - Fine Books]
Tom Christiansen,
Camel Critiques (www.perl.com/perl/critiques/)
I am new to the programming world and I hope to be able
to successfuly maneuver through this new territory.
I found "MacPerl: Power and Ease" at Borders
and out of all the books available,
yours looked the most approachable.
I appreciate the updates etc., online.
I am most impressed with the .html format
that allows seamless viewing within the browser.
Andy Wyatt,
Wyatt Company
An indispensible book for learning and for reference.
If you want to use MacPerl
(the excellent port of Perl to Mac OS,
loaded with useful Mac- specific functions),
you can do it in one of two ways:
You can buy this book;
or you can poke around aimlessly for about two years learning,
by trial and error (and guess, and crash),
what is clearly laid out in this book.
Two years ago,
I was an already fairly experienced Perler,
but with little experience with MacPerl.
If I'd had this book two years ago,
it would have saved me more time than I really even want to admit
-- weeks? Months?
As MacPerl is rapidly becoming the data-conversion meta-tool,
file- management language, and all-around Swiss Army chainsaw of
choice for Mac OS, you can't afford not to have this book.
Sean M. Burke,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
customer comment posted on amazon.com
Thank god, it's easy!
Perl drives me nuts.
This is not a language.
This is a strange state of mind.
But "MacPerl Power and Ease"
does what every good book does.
It makes me feel safe.
That's why I recommend it to everybody who is afraid of Perl,
(still) uses a Mac and wants to learn that language.
Buy it.
Dave Bruckmayr,
Frankfurt, Germany
customer comment posted on amazon.com
It's the definitive guide to all things MacPerl,
and it's a good primer for people who aren't programmers yet, either.
You can even read it online, although you should buy it if you can.
Jeff Lowrey,
http://firepower.jaral.org/
If you plan on trying/learning/using/exploiting MacPerl,
this book is definitely a Good Thing to have.
Patrick Woolsey,
Director of Technical Services
Bare Bones Software, Inc.
Perl (the Practical Extraction and Report Language)
has undergone an intense growth in popularity
with the popularity of the Internet.
A scripting language known for its ability to parse text,
Perl is often used for CGI scripting, HTML parsing,
and many other essential Web-related tasks.
MacPerl is an excellent implementation of the language
that gives Macintosh users all the features of Perl5 and much more.
MacPerl has several unique features that allow Perl programmers
to use Mac-specific features like buttons and windows,
and even compile Perl scripts into an application.
This book documents the magic of MacPerl.
MacPerl: Power and Ease
covers the Perl language itself,
as well as in-depth coverage of MacPerl features.
The accompanying CD-ROM contains MacPerl,
several utilities, and useful Perl scripts.
If you're a webmaster or HTML author
and you haven't learned Perl yet,
you owe it to yourself to spend some time reading this book
and increase your own productivity.
Even accomplished Perl programmers
will find the Mac Toolbox and reference sections useful. ...
Scott Kleper,
The Kleper Report on Digital Publishing (V3, N3)
www.printerport.com/kdp
