Chris Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:26:25PM +0000, David Hodgkinson wrote: > > > > It took me three bookshops on Charing Cross Road to get a perl library > > together for the guys I'm working with, but I managed it without > > having to go into Foyle's. Yeah! > > > > The bonus was a second edition of Jon Bentley's "Programming > > Pearls". A classic. > > Aha, you've left yourself open to pedants here: ... > > Is that 2nd edition as in with updates? Or as in "Reprinted with > corrections May, 1989"? Full-on second edition, couple of new columns and fundamental changes to reflect changes in technology since 1986. > > If the first, what's the difference? Is it worth getting it if you've > already got 1.ed? Yes. It has a vert fetching taupe (fawn? beige?) cover. > > Also, are you going to get them "More Programming Pearls, Confessions of > a Coder" as well? It was for me! -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -----------------------------------------------------------------
