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From: Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Data point: the O'Reilly Perl/Tk book mysteriously jumped in the
>Amazon sales rankings lately. It's been in the 100-300 range the
last
>few weeks.
Toilet paper must be scarce ;)
I dislike the Learning Perl/TK book and I'm waiting for the Manning
one which seems to have been delayed more times than the railtrack
service. Learning Perl/TK just seemed to be too much of a rehash of
the perldoc pages, a couple of complete sample applications in the
later half of the book would have been nice rather than wasting four
pages listing the options for a button, something thats both in the
docs and in the much better purchase Perl/Tk pocket reference (Which
has all the options but takes a lot less time to read and reference.)
There were no nice self-contained applications that showed all the
basic details that you build from for your own use, the book just
seemed like a selection of unconnected option lists. Simon Cozen's
articles are a much better read and learning point and Learning
Perl/TK should be used as an off-line reference if its used at all.
IMHO
Then again I've never written a book so what do I know :)
Dean
--
Profanity is the one language all programmers understand.
--- Anon
