<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>FYI<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma">----- Forwarded Message ----<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Mark Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> hop-discuss@plover.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:08:59 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Higher-Order Perl full text now available online<br></font><br>
<br>I already announced this on the mjd-book-announce mailing list, and it<br>was picked up by PerlBuzz, Slashdot, PerlMonks, Dan Kogai's blog,<br>etc., but I'd feel remiss if I didn't also mention it here.<br><br>================================================================<br><br>Higher-Order Perl is now available online.<br><br>But first, a word from our sponsor:<br><br> Higher-Order Perl is copyright 2005 by Elsevier<br> Inc. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is absolutely<br> forbidden.<br><br>In particular, note that although the text is available for free,<br>Higher-Order Perl is not in the public domain and is not available<br>under a free license of any sort. I distribute it from my web site by<br>virtue of special permission from the publisher. You, most likely, do<br>not have any such permission.<br><br><br>YOU CAN GET IT
FROM:<br><br> <a href="http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/" target="_blank">http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/</a><br><br>There are two versions available. You have your choice of structure<br>or presentation, but not both.<br><br><br>PDF VERSION<br><br> <a href="http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/#PDF" target="_blank">http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/#PDF</a><br><br>This is the publisher's own PDF proof of the second version, which was<br>sent to the printers in August 2005. <br><br>This is better than the bootleg copies available from download sites<br>in at least three ways:<br><br> * It is the complete text of the *second* printing, which<br> incorporates many minor corrections; the bootleg copies are<br> all bootlegs of the first
printing.<br><br> * It does not have a nasty little grafitto advertising a vainglorious<br> bootlegger plastered on every page.<br><br> * It was come by honestly, not stolen from the printer.<br><br><br><br>MOD VERSION<br><br> <a href="http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/#MOD" target="_blank">http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/#MOD</a><br><br>These are the original sources that I used to generate the manuscript<br>draft that I first sent to the publisher. They are written in MOD, a<br>variation on the "pod" markup in which Perl's documentation is<br>written. It should be self-explanatory. If not, drop me a note.<br><br>The big drawback of this version is that it not only omits the<br>corrections that were added between the first and second printings,<br>but also the much more significant
corrections that were added before<br>the first printing.<br><br><br><br>FREQUENTLY-ASKED QUESTION<br><br>Q. What took you so long?<br><br>A. I ran outta gas. I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab<br> fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in<br> from outta town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake, a<br> terrible flood, locust's. It wasn't my fault!! I swear to God!!<br><br> No, that's not right. It's totally my fault. I'd explain, but it<br> would feel too much like making excuses. Also you probably don't<br> care about the mundane details of my life for the past four years.<br> And anyway, even if I rehearsed the whole thing, you would be quite<br> justified in asking, at the end of the long story, "So I don't get<br> it. What
too you so long?"<br><br> You may remember I wanted to turn the book into a wiki. That would<br> have been awesome. But the book's fourth anniversary is coming up<br> this spring and I have to admit to myself that I'm not gonna get<br> the wiki together. So I'm posting the thing already.<br><br> If anyone else wants to try to turn it into a wiki, drop me a note.<br><br><br>Enjoy.<br><br><br></div></div></div></body></html>