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Re: again, the best perl manual book ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Otto Hammersmith)
Mon Nov 18 16:06:59 1996
From: Otto Hammersmith <ohammers@cu-online.com>
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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 14:47:26 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.961118152918.19348G@bigbang.phy.duke.edu> from "Kyle Ferrio" at Nov 18, 96 03:32:09 pm
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Kyle Ferrio wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Allen Francom wrote:
>
> > I bought the old ones that didn't know about Perl 5 and OOP...
> >
> > Don't make this mistake !
>
>
> Right. I got into Perl less than a year before the first 5.x release.
> Sigh. There's more than just modules and OOP that's changed, and there
> are some migration issues that you might not expect, or at least I didn't.
> So be sure to get the new Camel. A lot of places seem to be trying to
> unload copies of the original Camel, so you best bet may be to buy direct
> from O'Reilly: www.ora.com, about US$40.
>
> Kyle Ferrio
You're right about some places unloading the old camel, though I think
the publisher will give them credit for unsold books... much like
magazines. (I maybe wrong... O'Reilly might not do this, others
do... mostly for paperbacks)
In any case, there's no reason to only go to O'Reilly. The two books
are quite easy to tell apart... the old one has the usual
reddish-pinkish binding and highlighting, while the new one is blue.
Just don't get the red one (Programming Perl, that is, Learning Perl
is unchanged... phased out, I believe).
--
-Otto
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