Since so many people have asked, I was referring to a small part of the textbook:
"The Practice of Programming" Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike [I think it was 1999, Addison-Wesley, but I'm not sure] You should be able to find this at any decent university library, or at the good bookstore of your choice. They are also the authors of the classic "The Unix Programming Environment" which (I think) came out in 1984. I will note that, after their book came out, there was some discussion on the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup about improvements that could be made on K & P's Perl code. If I remember correctly, their C program was about 90 lines, their C++ program was about 120 lines, their Java program was even longer, and their Perl program was about 20 lines. The feeling of some on comp.lang.perl.misc at the time was that the Perl program could be made shorter while increasing its (time) efficiency simultaneously. And, IIRC, K & P hypothesized that Perl beat out C++ in the win32 environment because of possible flaws in the Microsoft Foundation Classes. And since those flaws may always be there... :-) David -- David Cassell, CSC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior computing specialist mathematical statistician _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
