Re: Useage of Perl up or down?

[abigail]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 12:37:05PM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> 
> You haven't been to a modern college campus bookstore recently have you?
> Barnes and Nobel *is* the campus bookstore in a lot of places and they buy
> back 95% of the course books, even trade as the professors may use them
> over the course of a year or two. I don't know many hard core language
> textbooks these days...almost all of them are trade.

I don't understand those students. We didn't have many textbooks when I
was in university (mid '80s), but they are still among my most used books.

I can easily live without my O'Reilly collection, or anything mentioning
Perl, but I cannot imagine a life without Tanenbaum, Kernighan & Pike,
Knuth, CLR, Aho, Hopcroft, Ullman or Edelsbrunner.



Abigail