From: Mike Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:48:27 -0400
Hi,
Would you say it would still be worthwhile to read Perl 6 and Parrot
Essentials in its published, paper form? I see that there's a lot of
other more up to date material listed here ... but I'd like a book
for when my hands or eyes are too sore for computers, or when I'm on
a bus or otherwise away from keyboards and monitors.
--
Mike Small
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Much has changed since the second edition was published, so the book is
likely to be misleading in some places, and dead wrong in others. But
since I only have a copy of the first edition, I'm afraid I can't be
more specific.
As an alternative for Parrot, you may prefer to start with the
documentation in the source repository [1], which is more up-to-date
(with some glaring exceptions), though easier to get lost in. For
learning about Perl 6 itself, the Synopses [2] are the most up-to-date
statements of the language design, and are fairly stable now; I've been
grinding my way through them myself, though I find it slow going.
If you would like to contribute, then you'll need to get your hands
dirty with the living documentation sooner or later. If your interest
is casual, then the overview the book provides is probably worth the
errors in detail.
Out of curiousity, is your interest primarily in Perl 6, Parrot, or
both?
-- Bob
[1] http://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk/docs/
[2] http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/synopsis.html
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