[Phoenix-pm] Wanted: Reviewers to read _Perl 6 Now_ and potentially say nice things

[Scott Walters]

Hi Perl Mongers,

I need people who have time and inclination to write a book
review to read copies of _Perl 6 Now_. Marketing (evil, run!)
wants me to hunt down otherwise sane people who would be
inclined to submit a review to Slashdot, Amazon, etc should
they happen to read a book they like after this seed is planted
in their head (and before an alien bursts from their stomach).
If you _don't_ like the book, I'd like to know all about it, 
but do me a favor and buy your own damn copy if you just want
to rag on it publically, mmm'kay? Seriously, I'm going to pass
out copies at Perl Mongers meetings when I get my hands on them,
but in addition to that, I need mailing addresses of people
interested in doing book reviews. If I recognize your name,
so much the better. In other words, people who have never posted
here before and haven't written cool CPAN modules will be
the last in line (assuming there is in fact a line). After
I get your name and mailing address, there will be a wait - 
probably over a month - while machines stamp the lettering
onto the pages. Mail your address to me, not the list. Again,
if you're *not* inclined to do a review, don't mail me but
go to the meetings instead - this will save Apress on
shipping charges as I'm getting one big box of these things.
If you email me something indicating you didn't read or comprehend
this post I'll assume you're not likely to comprehend the
book either and I will then decline to send you a copy.
If you have a _friend_ who has written reviews before or
otherwise comes to mind, feel free to pass this request along, but 
please, do not post it for everyone to see as this is only open for 
a few days and I'm favoring people I know of anyway. Okay, that's
it. Let's hear from you.

Thanks,
-scott

P.S.: I've attached a description of the book as Google doesn't
have too much useful to say about this title yet and the text on
Apress' website sucks rocks.

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

Perl 6 Now: The Core Ideas Illustrated with Perl 5 introduces 
continuations, coroutines, binding (or aliases), hyper operators that work on 
lists of data at once, set operators that work on complex datatypes, 
lightweight multidimensional arrays, strong type checking, autoboxing, 
precompilation, automatic module dependency installation, and more.

It shows the Perl 5 roots of these ideas, and shows how Perl 6 generalizes
them to be more widely useful and more interoperable.
These ideas support faster, cleaner, more scalable, more reliable code
capable of solving more demanding problems.

Perl 6 Now takes the structure of a standard programming book, 
where it first briefly teaches the basics from a Perl 6 perspective, 
touching on variable interpolation, datastructure use, object construction, 
threads, closures, symbol tables, and other core features.

This books is for those eager to see where Perl is headed,
Perl 5 programmers who want to know that their favorite tricks will still work 
in some form, and programmers wishing to open their minds to advanced 
programming topics taken from several of the most powerful and interesting 
languages on the market.

Examples are written both for Perl 5 and Perl 6 when the exact Perl 6 syntax is
known. Perl 5 examples use dozens of modules that backport Perl 6 features,
happened to have evolved along the same lines, or saved as a (sometimes
little known) basis of the Perl 6 version of the feature.

Though Perl 6 changes the fundamental syntax in some areas, Perl 5 code isn't 
left in the lurch. Thanks to PONIE, code from both versions may coexist in a 
single program. The programmer needs to adjust only a few habits and a learn a
few new things, and this early adopters guide will help you do these things.


AUTHOR BIO

Scott Walters has been programming computers since 1984 (professionally
since 1996). He built the corporate intranet at Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale,
and did pretty much everything for two startups. For fun, he runs
http://perldesignpatterns.com, does CGI scripting for the NetBSD Project
and http://projects.netbsd.org, maintains several CPAN modules,
and helps coordinate Perl Mongers meetings for Phoenix Perl Mongers.