Phoenix.pm: Perl Design Patterns

intertwingled intertwingled at qwest.net
Sun Sep 8 08:21:58 CDT 2002


Errm, is this "concrete perl poetry"?  There is
a poetry night at Willow House.  =)

At 02:01 AM 9/8/02 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Hi folks...
>
>I've written more examples, more prose, removed prose, and merged
>in content from other books (Object Oriented Design Heuristics proved
>to be an exceptional book, Refactoring Improving the Quality of 
>Existing Code was pretty good, but Design Patterns Elements of Reusable 
>Software I found disappointing).
>
>I'm really unhappy with the prose still. Reading it than reading 
>something by Larry shows a chasm the size of the grand canyon.
>
>I have some of my things I need to merge in, merge in some examples from
>Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (an excellent book).
>
>I haven't read the *original* Design Patterns book, by Chrisopher
>Alexandar, which was written for architecture, not computer science.
>Also, I've been meaning to make it down to ASU and pull Mark and Carl's
>book.
>
>There are entire sections I haven't touched and entire sections still
>on the first draft.
>
>After exchanging emails with some other perl folks who are working
>on similar projects and agreeing to "probably" collaborate, the
>text is now officially GNU Free Documentation License. Also, from
>mailing a dozen odd publishers (starting with O'Reilly and working down)
>the only reply I've gotten was from GNU, which was enthusastic and
>cheerful - and quick. Everyone else can sit and spin ;) Of course,
>GNU wouldn't pay any money, but they also wouldn't exclude other
>publishers. O'Reilly is starting to publish "community documentation".
>
>Anywho, I've got a long way to go, but its a heck of a lot better
>than the last revision.
>
>http://www.slowass.net/~phaedrus/perlpatterns/
>
>Feedback, ideas, thoughts, examples of good and bad Perl applications
>most welcome.
>
>-scott
>
>
>

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