[oak perl] Ken is Back

David Wheeler david at wheeler.net
Fri Jun 13 10:26:45 CDT 2003


On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 04:41  AM, Ken Chow wrote:

> Anyway, I was in Barnes and Noble today looking for a
> book about a Canadian outlaw motorcycle club when I
> happened upon a discounted copy of "Advanced Perl
> Programming" (O'Reilly) selling for $10.00 (American
> not Canadian).  I'm not sure if that means an updated
> Edition is soon to appear or what (and if "what", just
> what is what?).  Anyway, I thought I'd pass that along
> since I think it is a decent discount from the
> original price.  Several copies were seen at the
> Walnut Creek Barnes and Noble although I think that
> the discounts are the same throughout the bay area.

I recall finding that book pretty mediocre. And yes, I do believe that 
a new edition (read: total rewrite by a different author) is due for 
release sometime this year.

But I may be misremembering a rumor.

David

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