On Friday 14 July 2006 08:18, David Golden wrote: > Or, perhaps we need the "Perl CPAN Cookbook" -- which would be like the > Cookbook but focuses *only* on the greatest-hits modules across all the > same categories. If CPAN is one of Perl's greatest strengths, shouldn't > that get more attention, too? > > Or, perhaps, to break up or both Cookbook into individual books covering > certain topics in more depth. This might be good for O'Reilly's PDF > book series -- low cost and easy to update over time. > > More generally, I think Perl needs to be focusing on how it helps people > get stuff done faster/cheaper/better -- task focused, not tool focused > -- and in areas where there is buzz and excitement. E.g. "Writing AJAX > applications in Perl".
Er, right. Now let me don my editor hat. Authors welcome! -- c
