Re: [MacPerl] The meaning of SHUCK from Dictionary

[Arved_37@chebucto.ns.ca]

Quoting Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>:

> At 8:36 -0300 1999.08.11, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
> >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.
> 
Fair enough. I guess the way I was looking at it is two-fold:

(a) if your programming book budget allows for ~10 books a year, and Perl
doesn't account for more than 15-20% of what you do, would this book make
the cut? and;

(b) where does it fall on the scale of currently available Perl books? If
you had to pick 3 of them, would this one make it?

Arved


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