On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Nathan Torkington wrote: > Puneet Kishor writes: > > Nathan, I know you are out there. I just wanted to say it in public that > > the cookbook is perhaps _the_ most useful perl book for me... much more > > so than the other beasts (though the dromedary and the camelid too are > > very useful). Most everyday I turn to the cookbook and find my answer there.
<aol /> ! > Thanks! You're welcome! :) > I've been working with other editors at O'Reilly to free up my time so > that I can work on the second edition. Tom's been doing a lot of the > 5.8 updating (no more with the "new in the 5.004 release is ..." > claims!) and I'm writing new recipes. I've done four or five on > mod_perl so far, and I expect to produce a lot more in the coming weeks. > We'll also be fixing all the errata we couldn't justify fixing in the > reprints. Cool. It may be silly to ask, but has there been any thought as to how the release of a Perl Cookbook second edition will coincide with Perl6? I guess the broader question there is how long does it currently look like it'll take before Perl6 enters from stage left, but it seems like it's going to be different enough from 5.x that, whenever it does come along, it'll be a big enough change to justify new editions of perhaps all the main Perl books -- Camel, Ram, etc. As much as I'd love a version of the Cookbook to cover features in 5.6 & 5.8 -- I'll admit, I don't really use much or any of the new stuff because, without that tangible sense of "this new trick was in the Cookbook, we should All Use It Now", so 'blessing' the new changes with a new version of the book would be nice -- if by the time Cookbook2 is ready it looks like Perl6 will be right behind it, I'm not sure that I personally would get a copy because I'd be worried about its shelf life. That said, all the new stuff you're talking about putting in would make it worthwhile, whether or not Perl6 supercedes it right away or not. Seeing a web programming tutorial that starts with mod_perl rather than simple CGI seems like a very contemporary approach -- and mentioning $templates would make this even better still. > I'm contemplating a chapter of Mac stuff, but wonder whether that'd > also oblige me to do a chapter of Windows stuff, which I *don't* want > to do :-) Any chance Dave Roth could/would contribute this chapter? His Win32 Perl books seem pretty good, maybe he could add some material to the Cookbook. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
