Re: [MacPerl] "MacPerl: Power and Ease" now in Japanese edition

["Max Pinton" <max@maxgraphic.com>]

If anyone's wondering, the characters following "Mac Perl" [sic] are read 
"nyuumon," meaning "primer." Shame they didn't go for something more
literal.

> I am sitting in front of a very handsome book entitled "MacPerl".  Well,
> there are some Japanese characters following the title, but my keyboard
> doesn't seem to have them (:-).  Anyway, the authors are our own Vicki
> Brown and Chris Nandor, the text is translated into Japanese (interspersed
> with bits of Perl!), and the paintings  used on the cover are the same
> ones (by Delight Prescott) that grace the English-language edition.
>
> All told, it's a very handsome product, published by ASCII Books, part of
> ASCII, the large Japanese publishing organization.  It is available from
> the normal Japanese book sales channels.
>
> One of the more pleasant touches, in my estimation, is the fact that
> almost _everything_ (including most of the quotes) has been translated.
> Only the Perl code, the screen shots, and the disc's contents have been
> left untranslated.
>
> Aside from looking very handsome (IMHO), the book should be very useful
> to Japanese MacPerl users, both prospective and current.  Here is the
> relevant purchasing information:
>
>  MacPerl: Power and Ease (Japanese Edition)
>  Vicki Brown, Chris Nandor
>  ASCII Books, 1999
>  ISBN 4-7561-3068-2, Y4600E
>
>  ASCII Books:   http://www.ascii.co.jp
>  MPPE, per se:
> http://www.ascii.co.jp/books/detail/4-7561/4-7561-3068-2.html
>                 (Japanese; includes a cover shot!)
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