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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: The Book (was Re: Looking for balanced critique of Perl)
Message-ID: <1990Jun27.171449.4507@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 27 Jun 90 17:14:49 GMT
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In-Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)

In article <103428@convex.convex.com>, tchrist@convex (Tom Christiansen) writes:
| I hope that most of the subtleties of the language will be outlined in
| that fabled tome, the perl book he and Randal are working on.

I know that from our present work on the book, what you will probably
see is 250 pages in the tone of the 67 page manpage, so count on about
4 times the number of examples, and a few larger programs documented,
along with some "philosophy" and "religion" regarding programming in
Perl effectively.  To get everything you ask for, and to document the
features that Larry will most certainly add while the book is at the
printer, you will probably have to get "The Book, version 2.0."
Sorry...  it's the nature of the biz.

We are definitely aiming to capture as much of the incremental wisdom
of comp.lang.perl, my coding, and Larry's intimate knowledge of Perl
as we can, but it is really difficult to document a moving target.

Buy the book!  Yell at us for not having any examples of
"Perl-assisted honeydanber UUCP management" or "how to eval an
arbitrary expression inside a quoted string" or "when do I use $\"!
But 250 pages is certainly better than 67 pages.  If you are a regular
reader of comp.lang.perl, don't expect any great revelations... just a
broadening of your understanding.

Just another Perl-book hacker,
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