From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 14 07:45:48 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2A7A16A46B for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:45:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A08EF13C468 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:45:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so919704pyb.3 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:45:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:cc:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; bh=ZkwiVfEveXhTQ7fZ+GxS30Cvzr/6fHoUlyn34102fgg=; b=E6JeV9T22M76blpDJdIeS3c61oZaJEPaLVbeTlnoYjSni14r6fQjn0UMJGBagKwOAN5oYvIqgHe4MAWFS+/LVaaSzmv8X9TYHIGf043YkT0NtXwtT3z+IlV84W8GM7vajNugnpCPJjZ2KlQ6tTvdDgpQay17Tqbf/NUINKBswGw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:cc:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=AhlWbj0lZbi4cRG5HXxGCmR6qcEjpkGJUXI64zvLpFmyqbVesWuzxQnYmZXudbvVBI4f/hA7hXGZQJdTcr3vyMKvZKDdwoP/dsrTP/I2+Xidc93B5iOY1dH4ITTwM2uXJROLcr/8DxbMtbDAoytxULpb8wbI40y7IB9f+/f4OG8= Received: by 10.35.49.4 with SMTP id b4mr3327428pyk.35.1197618347405; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:45:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.4? ( [74.134.230.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f60sm22861736pyh.2007.12.13.23.45.44 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:45:46 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20071214071254.GE20150@demeter.hydra> References: <164187.49783.qm@web88302.mail.re4.yahoo.com> <20071214071254.GE20150@demeter.hydra> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Joshua Isom Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:46:17 -0600 To: Chad Perrin X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.624) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Absolute FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:45:49 -0000 On Dec 14, 2007, at 1:12 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: > For the record . . . title changes for new editions like that annoy me. > It can make it pretty difficult at times trying to determine whether or > not I'm about to buy a duplicate. The switch from Learning Perl > Objects, > References, and Modules to Intermediate Perl was another example of > that > sort of annoyance. > Perhaps you should look in /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/pod, which from my experience, has been better than any book I've ever seen for perl. Try running `perldoc perlintro` and `perldoc perllol`. With exceptions such as "old standard" languages, most free documentation that comes with the interpreter/compiler tends to be better than any book. A print out of perl's documentation would be far more valuable than almost any perl book on the market. Although I haven't looked much into any FreeBSD book, I wouldn't be surprised at all if FreeBSD's documentation combined with freebsd-questions would outweigh it.