Re: [Boston.pm] Damien's book OOP - OOP?

2003-10-12 Thread Erik Price
On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 11:10 AM, Andrew M. Langmead wrote: Even when it is the best book on the subject and all the information in the book is relavent to the current version of the language? I'll never understand the book publishing business. Though I haven't read Damian Conway's

[Boston.pm] Damien's book OOP - OOP?

2003-10-09 Thread Christopher Redinger
I've been trying to track down a copy of Damien's Object Oriented Perl book for a friend. But all of the major online merchants are listing it out of stock. It looks like you can still get it direct from the publisher, but I was wondering why nobody seems to have it in stock. (Well, it looks

Re: [Boston.pm] Damien's book OOP - OOP?

2003-10-09 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Christopher Redinger wrote: I've been trying to track down a copy of Damien's Object Oriented Perl book for a friend. But all of the major online merchants are listing it out of stock. It looks like you can still get it direct from the publisher, but I was wondering why

Re: [Boston.pm] Damien's book OOP - OOP?

2003-10-09 Thread Andrew M. Langmead
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:55:45AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: I'm pretty sure there's no second edition in the works -- more likely it's just a 4 year old book that distributors are deciding not to stock any more. Even when it is the best book on the subject and all the information in the book

Re: [Boston.pm] Damien's book OOP - OOP?

2003-10-09 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Andrew M. Langmead wrote: On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:55:45AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: I'm pretty sure there's no second edition in the works -- more likely it's just a 4 year old book that distributors are deciding not to stock any more. Even when it is the best

Re: [Boston.pm] Damien's book OOP - OOP?

2003-10-09 Thread Bobbi Fox, WebWeaver
I had the privilege of attending Damien's Advanced Modules class last week (thanks, Uri; the man is *truly evil* :-) Without being able to quote Damien verbatum, I think it's fair to say that it is very unlikely to be a second edition :-( -- Bobbi Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Database-driven and

Re: [perl] [Boston.pm] Damien's book OOP - OOP?

2003-10-09 Thread Donald Leslie {74279}
Christopher Redinger wrote: I've been trying to track down a copy of Damien's Object Oriented Perl book for a friend. But all of the major online merchants are listing it out of stock. It looks like you can still get it direct from the publisher, but I was wondering why nobody seems to have it

Re: [Boston.pm] Damien's book OOP - OOP?

2003-10-09 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Bobbi Fox, WebWeaver wrote: Without being able to quote Damian verbatim, I think it's fair to say that it is very unlikely to be a second edition :-( Also, it seems like not much would have changed in Perl's OOP support since the book first came out -- not enough to justify