[oak perl] Ken is Back

David Fetter david at fetter.org
Fri Jun 13 10:43:09 CDT 2003


On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 08:26:45AM -0700, David Wheeler wrote:
> 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.

I don't think mediocre--"average"--quite covers it.  It sucks.

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

O'Reilly's site doesn't make any mention of it, but for groovy
references, check out the Perl Cookbook and Randal Schwart & Tom
Phoenix's new "Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules."  As I
understand it, Randal was slated to write Advanced Perl Programming,
but his legal troubles took too much of his time.

Cheers,
D
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