[MacPerl-Scribes] "Perl Essence" suggestions requested...

[Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>]

I have started the initial work on "Perl Essence", an introductory
book on Perl that Vicki Brown and I are writing, based on MPPE.  It
will carry in the MPPE approach, in that it will:

   *  not assume any programming background,

   *  teach "Essential Perl", a conservative subset of Perl that is
      designed to keep programmers out of syntactical snafus.

Simply put, our plan is to:

   *  Chop out everything that is Mac-specific.

   *  Fill in with generic Perl information.

I am fairly well along in the chopping process and hope to have a
(very) rough draft up on the web Real Soon Now.  In the meanwhile,
however, I am soliciting comments from MPPE readers as to things
they would like to see changed in this editing process.

If, for instance, you found MPPE's explanations of associative
arrays to be confusing, please let me know, as specifically as
possible, so that I can try to improve things in Perl Essence.

NOTE:  This is off-topic for the macperl list, but it is on-topic
        for macperl-scribes.  So, please limit your responses to
        the latter list (or to personal email to me).

-r
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