[oak perl] Re: Hello George, regarding book, etc.

[George Woolley]

Ken,
Good to hear from you.
Thanks for watching the list.
As you suggested, I am forwarding your email to the list.

That's a lot of interesting suggestions.
I'll keep them in mind for next time
we have an opportunity for a free book.

      -- George

Everyone,
Well, ideas for next time we get a book would be kool. 
So, do  you have any thoughts on Ken's suggestions? 
Any other thoughts?

     -- George

On Sunday 23 March 2003 7:44 am, you wrote:
> Hello George,
>
> Sorry that I haven't kept in contact lately.  I'm still currently
> occupied on Tue. evenings and unfortunately I've also temporarily lost
> access to my account that the perl mailing list threads get sent to, but
> don't worry about taking me off the list because I'm planning on somehow
> regaining access to the account.  In the meantime, I navigate through
> the Oakland Perl web site and follow the threads a few times a week.
> Since it looks like nobody through out suggestions, I thought I might
> delinquently add my two cents.
>
> I think that O'Reilly has recently published the old perl journals in a
> book authored or credited to John Orwant.I believe that it is titled
> something like "Computer Science and Perl" or something like that.  From
> my understanding, it's pretty much just all of the perl journal articles
> bundled in a book, so it probably doesn't add anything to anyones
> interest if they already have all of the past journals but might be of
> general interest for various people.  Incidentally, it wouldn't be of
> interest to me (even though I'm making the suggestion) since I actually
> do have all of the past journals. Also, some of the stuff might be
> outdated.
>
> Another possibility of general interest, but probably fairly heady
> reading for some, is the Algorithms book (not sure of the exact title
> but I think it has that word in it).  I think that it's older. I've
> never looked at it closely, but I think that it covers topics commonly
> found in computer science data structures classes and such (set theory,
> trees, etc.).  I'm actually planning on purchasing it when I win the
> lottery (or come up with 40 dollars, whichever comes first).
>
> Also, I noticed a new O'Reilly book out about programming graphics with
> perl (not the TK book).  That might be somewhat interesting if I get
> beyond my initial 40 dollar goal.
>
> On a possibly related item, I wonder if O'Reilly has printed a perl book
> specific to game programming. I think that it's a subtopic of the perl
> journal collection book.
> Lastly, when I used to go down to the Computer Literacy bookstore (which
> I think eventually got transformed into Barnes and Nobles and shortly
> thereafter disappeared), I noticed that they would sell several spiral
> bound copies of books yet to be published (i.e. they were in their beta
> form).  They were fairly expensive but it just started making me wonder
> if O'Reilly has ever donated copies of these types of books for
> pre-released review by perl groups.
>
> Anyway, feel free to forward this to the group if you want just in case
> someone decides to second or object to the book suggestions made above.
>
> Ken