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From: nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: The Book (was Re: Looking for balanced critique of Perl)
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Date: 27 Jun 90 18:02:18 GMT
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In article <1990Jun27.171449.4507@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
>...
>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,

So SELL the book already!  (Know why the Perl programmer got divorced?  He
never did anything - just told his wife how great it was GONNA be!!) 

Oh...all of the above is covered by :-)

Just another waiting-for-godot book purchaser.



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John W. Nall		| Supercomputation Computations Research Institute
nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu  | Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306
"They said it couldn't be done/they said nobody could do it/
But he tried the thing that couldn't be done!/He tried - and he couldn't do it"