Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!oz.cis.ohio-state.edu!jgreely From: jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs Subject: Re: Is there a good Perl book out? Message-ID: Date: 31 Aug 89 18:15:26 GMT References: <13900@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <5921@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <1318@ethz-inf.UUCP> Reply-To: J Greely Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 33 In article <1318@ethz-inf.UUCP> wyle@inf.ethz.ch (Mitchell Wyle) writes: >Perl is better than awk. The man page is slightly better than awk's. >There is no book as good as A,W, and K's, however :-( >Are there enough of us who would buy the book to make it worth NASA's >while to pay Larry to write it? Maybe, but what would you *call* it? "Kitchen Sink Shell Programming"? "Cultered Perl"? "Diamonds in Perl"? "Never mind the catsup, pass the features"? >Is there a Perl-users mailing list? No, but we could always start one. The scripts to manage it would, of course, be in Perl (I have this nifty digest-maker, pity it breaks under 3.0a...). As soon as my job situation settles a bit, I'd even be willing to run it. "Okay, Max, we need something from each of the four basic food groups: something from the dough-and-frosting group, something from the carbonation- and-caramel-coloring group --" "How about the chewy-nougat- center-and-chocolaty-coating group?" "Don't forget the orange marshmellow peanuts! I think those are a vegetable." -=- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)