Yay. Drinks!
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| On (03/17 21:11), Alex J. Avriette wrote:
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| > Additionally, it is rumored that there will be a chapter on poe programmin
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| > in the new edition of Advanced Perl Programming.
|
| no rumor. is fact.
|
| way back when, there were several of us interested in writing poe books.
| we talked about writing a big big together. and then seperate books.
| then we talked to reps at publishers. no one was particularly interested
| in a poe book (yes even ora. and yes i've talked with gnat).
|
| then we realized something. books are great. free stuff is better. in my
| case, i asked myself the question "why do i want to write this book?"
| apart from half dreams of being known for something other than annoying
| the hell out of people, i realized that i simply wanted better poe docs.
| i wanted poe documentation that was accessible, portable, and easy to
| understand. so i started the poed project. not a whole lot has come of
| it (i changed jobs shortly thereafter) but the beginnings of a
| completely new set of documentation exists in cvs.
|
| i would positively buy drinks for people who help bring poed and the man
| page rewrite to life again. and in time, when the market's ready or
| whatever, there's nothing saying that we can't just bundle up the new
| docs we write, clean them up some, and publish those as books :)
|
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| Matt Cashner
| http://eekeek.org
| eek at eekeek dot org
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