[hetr@manning.com: Extending and Embedding Perl - New Free Book for Perl Mongers Groups]

Leon Brocard acme at astray.com
Sat Aug 3 06:10:26 CDT 2002


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From: Helen Trimes <hetr at manning.com>
Subject: Extending and Embedding Perl - New Free Book for Perl Mongers Groups
To: Leon Brocard <leon at astray.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 16:34:47 -0400
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Attention Bath.pm Members ---

Manning Publications announces the release of:
Extending and Embedding Perl
By Tim Jenness and Simon Cozens

To learn more about this book and find out how to get a free review copy for
your group, please read on ...

Greenwich, Connecticut, August 2002 - Extending and Embedding Perl explains
how to expand the functionality and usefulness of the Perl programming
language and how to use Perl from C programs. It is the only book available
with in-depth coverage of interfacing Perl and C.

What's Inside -
* C for the Perl programmer
* Basic and advanced XS
* Embedding Perl in C programs
* Perl internals
* An API reference for the internal C interface to Perl
* A reference on the typemap system
* Embedding Perl into the mutt mail reader

About the Authors -
A Perl developer for 7 years, Tim Jenness has ten modules on CPAN including
two that are distributed as part of the core Perl distribution (File::Temp
and Pod::LateX). He lives in Hilo, Hawaii.
Simon Cozens, the author of Beginning Perl, was the release manager for the
first four releases of the Perl 6 runtime engine, Parrot, and resides in
Oxon, UK.

About Manning Publications Co. -
For each of its books Manning makes available to its readers an online
discussion forum where they can pose questions to the author. To get access
to the authors of Extending and Embedding Perl, go to
www.manning.com/jenness. Here you will also find the book's table of
contents, sample chapters, source code and other content. Extending and
Embedding Perl will be available in retail stores in August 2002.

Extending and Embedding Perl joins other notable Perl titles from Manning
including Object Oriented Perl, Data Munging with Perl, Web Development with
Apache and Perl, Graphics Programming with Perl, and Elements of Programming
with Perl.


Extending and Embedding Perl
By Tim Jenness and Simon Cozens
ISBN 1930110-820
July 2002, Softbound, 384 pages, $44.95 Available in bookstores August 2002.
Ebook Edition 2 Mb, PDF, $13.50. Available only from the publisher at
www.manning.com/jenness.

Manning's User Group Program --
Manning supports the grassroots efforts of the User Group community. A goal
of Manning's User Group Program is to foster relationships with technical
communities that--in addition to meeting regularly--troubleshoot, write book
reviews, and share knowledge through newsletters or Web sites. Manning will
provide a free book for presentation at meetings, for group libraries or for
door prizes in exchange for a written published review.

If your group is willing to write and publish a review, please contact Helen
Trimes at hetr at manning.com. Reviews should be published in print or online
within sixty days of receipt of the free book at your group's website, in a
newsletter, a newsgroup, at an online bookstore, or at another relevant
public forum. When requesting a free review copy, please include your plans
for posting the book review as well as your shipping address.

Manning Publications Co. ~ 209 Bruce Park Avenue ~ Greenwich, CT 06830
www.manning.com






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