Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 14:14:18 -0400 From: Alejandro Imass <ait@p2ee.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: perl qstn... Message-ID: <y2ja14066a01004041114o31ca1f8dz2096d9798e1d833e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100404150443.GA14567@guilt.hydra> References: <20100403210610.GA4135@thought.org> <4BB8108A.9080104@FreeBSD.org> <1270371713.5861.98.camel@tao.thought.org> <86aatjnsts.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <20100404150443.GA14567@guilt.hydra>
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On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 08:25:03AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: [...] > The final member of the traditional camelid trilogy, and a great book to Hmm, so there _are_ in fact several trilogies! <g> I would swap the Camel for the Black Leopard anyday. Not implying that the author is not a great writer, but the Camel book is mostly a printout of perldoc perl <g> sure hope Larry is not on this list <lol> > tack onto the list after the Alpaca, is the Camel Book, titled > Programming Perl. =A0It's sorta the definitive reference for Perl > programmers, and covers a lot more of the language and its philosophy > than the Llama and Alpaca, though in my opinion the Llama and Alpaca > together provide a needed introduction that the Camel only skims past > (out of necessity, really, since a hand-holding introduction isn't really > the book's purpose). > > There's also Mastering Perl, which was written as a sequel to > Intermediate Perl, and I'm sure it's an excellent book. =A0I haven't read > it, though, and know next to nothing about it, so I can't really > recommend it. > Perhaps the Vicu=F1a and kids is in fact the thrid member of the "trilogy", but the Black Leopard is a must have to become a respected Perl hacker IMHO. Anyway, since this is all OT I started this thread in PM for your comments: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=3D832725 Cheers, Alejandro Imass
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