At 12:59 PM -0500 11/27/02, Chris Devers wrote:
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Nathan Torkington wrote:
\> 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 don't think you want to wait that long. The cookbook for perl 6
would likely lag behind perl 6's first major release by at least 18
months--it's tough to document useful best practices for a language
that's not out yet!
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.
I think we're safe there. Could be wrong, but I think we're safe.
--
Dan
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