On Monday 16 April 2007, brian d foy wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Shlomi Fish > > Some mistakes you make pertinent to me: > > Learning Perl 4th Edition is the current version of the Llama (you list > the 3rd Edition). > > Learning Perl is not writen for people who are absolute beginners in > programming. We say as much in the book. > > The Student Workbook for Learning Perl and Intermediate Perl are > missing. > > The Perl Review is a print magazine, not an online collection of > articles. You can get the PDF issues, but it's not something like > Perl.com or IBM Developer Works. > > Randal Schwartz writes for a couple of magazines, not newspapers. > > Beginning Perl is now in its second edition. > > Mac OS X isn't "mostly compatible with UNIX", it is a *nix. > > Use.perl is missing from the Web Forums link
Thanks for you commentary. I disagree about the Mac OS X one - some things about Mac OS X differ from most other Unix-flavours, including the absense of most of /etc, their case-sensitivity problems, their extended file properties (that have often broken perl Makefile.PL) etc. I hate the term *nix because no one understands what it is, while "Unix-compatible, a Unix-clone, a Unix-flavour, etc." is much clearer. In any case, I'll try to correct it. Meanwhile you can send patches to: http://perl-begin.berlios.de/source/ If you want, I'll give you a Subversion commit access, so you can commit it there. Just email me your prefered username and password, preferably in a text file encrypted with my GPG public key. I'll try to correct it, but it's hard for me to tell when. Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ If it's not in my E-mail it doesn't happen. And if my E-mail is saying one thing, and everything else says something else - E-mail will conquer. -- An Israeli Linuxer
