Re: New Perl Stuff From O'Reilly

[David Cantrell]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 01:58:19PM -, Matthew Jones wrote:
> > As a Perl novice I'd have to say the old version looks much better. 
> > Just replacing Programming Perl would have been enough.
> 
> As another person at an early stage in my Perl self-development, I'll second
> this, and add that I'd like to add the Owl book on regexps, although I
> suppose that's not strictly perl-specific enough to go on the perl cd
> bookshelf?

It is *incredibly* useful, and I found it very easy to read, although
plenty of people criticise it for being very academic.  Good idea that
man!

I wouldn't want to put the Wolf book in there, cos IMO it's crap.  I'd
like to see 'classic' papers from TPCs in there.

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RE: New Perl Stuff From O'Reilly

[Matthew Jones]

> As a Perl novice I'd have to say the old version looks much better. 
> Just replacing Programming Perl would have been enough.

As another person at an early stage in my Perl self-development, I'll second
this, and add that I'd like to add the Owl book on regexps, although I
suppose that's not strictly perl-specific enough to go on the perl cd
bookshelf? And "Programming the Perl DBI", which I find very handy.

I got my copy of the Perl CD Bookshelf because it included books that
provide a reference for just about every stage of development.

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Re: New Perl Stuff From O'Reilly

[Robin Szemeti]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> Well, sort of. It's a repacking of some existing stuff - a second
> edition of the Perl CD Bookshelf 
> 
> Looks like the contents of the new edition is:
> 
> * Programming Perl, 3rd Edition
> * Perl for System Administration
> * Perl in a Nutshell
> * Perl Cookbook
> * Advanced Perl Programming


> What would _you_ have included?

<< * Perl for System Administration
>> * Programming the perl DBI

and although its not oreilly ;) 
>>  'What you need to know' chapter 2 from OO Perl (Conway) cos that one
chapter replaces pretty much all of learning perl in 1/10 of the
verbosity. .. and ideally the whole book :)

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RE: New Perl Stuff From O'Reilly

[Simon Batistoni]

> Compare to the old edition which had:
<...>
> * Learning Perl
> * Learning Perl on Win32 Systems

Ditching these two makes sense - they're good books, but they do exactly
what it says on the tin, and once you've got your teeth into perl, you use
the Camel, Cookbook et al as everyday references.

You'd have to be fairly committed to learning perl to grab all the books on
one CD before you'd even tried to learn the basics.

> What would _you_ have included?

I'd have been tempted to have Mastering Algorithms on there too, but only
from a "I think it sounds useful as a reference" point-of-view - I haven't
had a chance to read it yet.

Re: New Perl Stuff From O'Reilly

[Neil Ford]

>Well, sort of. It's a repacking of some existing stuff - a second
>edition of the Perl CD Bookshelf 
>
>Looks like the contents of the new edition is:
>
>* Programming Perl, 3rd Edition
>* Perl for System Administration
>* Perl in a Nutshell
>* Perl Cookbook
>* Advanced Perl Programming
>
>Compare to the old edition which had:
>
>* Perl in a Nutshell
>* Programming Perl, 2nd Edition
>* Perl Cookbook
>* Advanced Perl Programming
>* Learning Perl
>* Learning Perl on Win32 Systems
>
>What would _you_ have included?
>
>Dave...

As a Perl novice I'd have to say the old version looks much better. 
Just replacing Programming Perl would have been enough.

If anyone does decide to 'upgrade' I'd be interested it taking their 
old copy off their hands.

Neil.
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