Excerpts from Review of Minimal Perl

From The Perl Review, December, 2006

• "Minimal Perl … shows how to construct numerous useful programs without even having to open an editor; it's the ultimate homage to the one-liner."
  
• "unique value: listing useful clusters of options so you don't have to learn the rules of how they should be ordered."
  
• "If you want to know about Perl's paragraph mode, this is the place to come."
  
• "items I found of special value:
  • Coverage of the author's Shell::POSIX::Select [a Perl implementation of the POSIX shell's select loop]
  • advice to put the main program in a naked block of its own
    
  • using -i.$SECONDS on the command line to avoid clobbering your only backup.
  That last example is one of many in this book of a synergy between Perl and the shell that you will not find elsewhere."
• "Bottom line:
  • shell veterans will find an easy bridge to Perl that speaks to them in their own language;
  • shell neophytes will find a tour de force road map for getting useful stuff done."