Chris Devers writes: > 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?
Yes. We're not holding up any of the revisions to our Perl books for Perl 6. As we've all learned over the past years, it's impossible to predict the pace of Larry's progress. It would be rude to leave books in limbo until some undetermined point in the future. When Perl 6 is closer to completion, and being used by people, it'll be more of an issue. > I guess the broader question there is how long does it currently > look like it'll take before Perl6 enters from stage left Good question. Personally, I'm hoping 2003 sees the Perl 6 language get the major syntax (objects, subroutines, methods, modules) nailed down to the point where we can have a Perl 6 interpreter with significant syntactic advantages over Perl 5. It'll still be a while before it's stable enough for use. Larry describes his work as "designing a language for the next twenty years". Hopefully we'll be using it before then :-) > > 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. My stupid sense of ownership of the Cookbook would make that unlikely. If there was Windows stuff, I'd do it. Somehow I can't see me forcing Tom into it :-) Nat
