Reviews for Developing CGI Applications with Perl

1. great intro to CGI

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, March 12th, 2001

   I already knew Perl, but needed an intro to CGI. This book was great - it got me started in no time. No, it is not great for tiny details, or advanced stuff, but it's good for getting you up to speed on CGI using perl.

2. Worth browsing, not buying

   Rated 3 out of 5 stars, November 12th, 1998

   There's a lot of talk in this book but not much code. When it does show code examples, it comes with few comments. I was referred to this book after I read Tom Chritiansen's review that said good words about its use of shared memory. I thought using shm in CGI programming is quite unusual and worth reading. But when I read the section(s), I find too much talk about how to manage a project and little explanation of the C/Perl program that uses shm. This book may be good to managers not for programmers.