In my opinion, the balanace between theory and technique in the book is good, you really can't expect a book about object oriented to be without any theory at all right?
I was very fresh on OO perl when I first read the book and I did found a lot of good tips and advice from it. If you are too fresh to OO perl, I would say this is a good place to start. Tor. Paul Tremblay wrote: > I finished *Learning Perl*(The O'Reilly book), and thought it one of the best books >relating to a linux subject I have yet read. > > (I know that many people on this mailing list probably use Windows. If you are a >linux user and have had to suffer through some of the awful documentation on various >aspects of linux, then you will think books like *Learning Perl* a masterpiece!) > > However, I now believe I should learn at least some of the concepts of object >oriented perl, especially since I want to use modules like XML::Parser. > > My search on amazon.com came up with a book called *Object Oriented Perl,* written >by Damian Conway and others. Amazon.com lets regular people review the book, and >almost every one of these reviewers raved about the book. It was the "best book" the >ever read, they "wished they had read it a long time ago." > > However, I believe I came upon a portion of this book on line. This is the url: > > >http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:NiHGVcWGmw8C:www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/PDF/cyberdigest.pdf+object+oriented+perl&hl=en > > (1) Could someone tell me if this in fact is from the same book? > > >From what I read on this site, I was not too impressed with the book at all. It >seemed to go on forever explaining theory without giving any concrete examples with >perl code. My second question is: > > (2) Does this book get better in chapters 2 and 3? Do people on this mailing list >recomend it? > > Keep in mind that I am a beginner with no previous experience in any object oriented >langauge. > > Thanks! > > Paul > > -- > > ************************ > *Paul Tremblay * > *[EMAIL PROTECTED]* > ************************ > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
