From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 4 18:14:19 2010 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 B994D1065672 for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2010 18:14:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aimass@yabarana.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f195.google.com (mail-qy0-f195.google.com [209.85.221.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E03B8FC15 for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2010 18:14:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk33 with SMTP id 33so3551417qyk.28 for ; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:14:18 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: aimass@yabarana.com Received: by 10.229.218.137 with HTTP; Sun, 4 Apr 2010 11:14:18 -0700 (PDT) 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> Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 14:14:18 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: c0d77f60775779d4 Received: by 10.229.192.10 with SMTP id do10mr7915960qcb.48.1270404858612; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:14:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: Alejandro Imass To: FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: perl qstn... 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: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 18:14:19 -0000 On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Chad Perrin 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! 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 sure hope Larry is not on this list > 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