Kevin - Thanks for the rec! I've been eyeing that book from my Safari account.
I've been suffering a bout of "I've been diddling with Perl since 1995, don't you think I'd know it by now?" Keyword: diddling. I think if I'd been lucky enough to have a job *doing* something with Perl, I'd be way better off, now. Just a tidbit from my TMI file. - Glenn Becker On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Just got the "Learning More Perl" aka "POR&M", aka "the alpaca book" today. > It does a nice job of building up examples and models, explaining enough of > the underlying structure for complex data structures, references, etc. so > that one can see a little of the how and why (though still without too many > of the messy technical details). A nice gentle introduction to modules > early one (with, I assume, more to come later). > > My vocabulary is expanding, I can now throw off phrases like "anonymous > array constructor" and "marshalling" (I thought that was 'serializing') as > if I knew what I was talking about; I'm sure I'll be dreaming of package > names and autovivification tonight. > > Nice book; if you like(d) the Learning Perl approach, you'll like this even > more (that is unless you haven't been doing your homework). > > -K > > * in Oogaboogoo > -- +-----------------------------+ There are no motionless targets +-----------------------------+ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
