I just stumbled across this review. Thank you very much, pritesh. I'm humbled that you think so highly of it. I also have to thank the many wonderful reviewers who helped me when I was writing. Plus, the editorial staff at Wiley were awesome. It too me eight months to write what is probably the longest book on Perl written by a single author, and it has typos (new wife, new baby, new country, new job, and writing a book at the same time aren't a great combination), but I'm proud of that book.