I hate to write negative reviews, but this book deserves it. Both the title, "Programming for Linguists," and the subtitle, "Perl for Language Researchers," are misleading. This book is really just another "Perl for Dummies" book, and not a very good one. There is no code here that is relevant to either linguistics or language research. Linguists who want to learn Perl would be better off with an introductory text from O'Reilly.