[ABE.pm] What's new in ABE Perldom?
Phil Lawrence
phil at five-lawrences.com
Thu Jul 14 07:12:00 PDT 2005
On Jul 14, 2005, at 9:46 AM, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
>
> Did you read much more of Advanced Perl Programming 2? I finished it,
> and frankly I was somewhat disappointed. I wrote a review of it
> (and a
> few other recent reads) on our wiki:
>
> http://abe.pm.org/wiki/index.cgi?BookLibrary
Well, I read the preface, ch 1, and half of ch 2.
I think he does a fine job in ch1 of explaining *how* the advanced
perl coding works, and then goes on to show the modules that have
already done the heavy lifting for you.
Frankly, I was excited when i started the book, because it starts at
exactly my level. I've done a lot of the things he talks about in ch
1, but only one time or something. So it was kinda fun to see in one
place a lot of the info I had to scrape together the hard way before.
But really I have to call this book a reference, because I'm not
parsing anything now, I'm not creating any fancy OO stuff now, I'm
not doing any Unicode now, in fact I'm not writing *any* perl now!
But it certainly has a place next to the Camel for anyone actually
doing, well, "advanced" perl programming.
Phil
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