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·September 14, 2025
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Jtsummers

I'm going to repeat myself, why are people upvoting this? It's an LLM generated book, and not even decent. It's pages and pages of code listings with little or no explanations. It's also wrong at various points.

Perl is weakly typed, for instance, not strongly typed no matter what Claude tells you. Try "1" + 1 and ask yourself if that result makes any sense in a strongly typed language.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45242075

DrillShopper

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runjake

Gotta go with Jtsummers’ comment. This looks like it was written by an LLM and contains many, many factual errors.

It does not appear to have any relation to the O’Reilly book of the same name.

I recommend people flag this submission. Check out something like the Modern Perl book by chromatic instead.

https://www.onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/index.html

chromatic

I wrote the book Modern Perl by hand, and it's accurate and freely available. I wonder how much of the linked book relies on what I already wrote:

https://www.modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl_2016/

runjake

Hey, I wanted to thank you for writing the Modern Perl book.

It helped me write a bunch of maintainable Perl code still in production.

bb88

Was it co-wrote with Claude? If so, then yes maybe?