Re: [MacPerl] The meaning of SHUCK from Dictionary

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 8:36 -0300 1999.08.11, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Charles Cave wrote:
>
>> P.S. What comments do people have on the book EFFECTIVE
>> PERL PROGRAMMING by Joseph Hall and Randall Schwarz?
>> URL is http://www.effectiveperl.com/
>>
>Based on the Addison-Wesley material, particularly the TOC, it looks like
>exactly what it purports to be - an itemized discussion of pitfalls and
>Perl oddities that a programmer who's been using Perl for a few months is
>going to be just about ready to absorb.
>
>At a list of $32.95 I don't know as how I wouldn't just get the Cookbook.
>It looks to me like EFFECTIVE PERL PROGRAMMING has a very limited zone of
>usefulness for the typical Perl programmer. Not to knock the authors, but
>with the other books that are already out I think the need for this one is
>feeble.

I think it is a good book to have to hone your style.  It really is the
only book I can think of that focuses on style and idioms and stuff like
that.

Note: there is only one author.  Randal helped with the book, but mostly in
that some of the content is based on his classes, and he tech edited a lot
of it.  It is "with" Randal, not "by" Randal.  :)

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