Perl recommended reading list

2000-10-09 Thread Philip Newton
On 5 Oct 2000, at 15:06, Dan Sugalski wrote: > I should actually RFC it--we could use a "recommended reading" RFC. Have you had any further thoughts on this? Do you think you'll find the tuits necessary? Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I appreciate copies of replies to my

Re: Perl recommended reading list

2000-10-09 Thread Simon Cozens
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:00:12PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > On 5 Oct 2000, at 15:06, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > > I should actually RFC it--we could use a "recommended reading" RFC. > > Have you had any further thoughts on this? Do you think you'll find > the tuits necessary? Well, if you wa

Re: Perl recommended reading list

2000-10-09 Thread John Porter
"Generic Programming and the STL", http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201309564 "Designing Concurrent, Distributed, and Real-Time Applications with UML" http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201657937 "An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms" http://www.amazon.com/ex

Re: Perl recommended reading list

2000-10-09 Thread Simon Cozens
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 03:14:49PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: > Well, if you want us to all chip in with ideas, here's what I've been reading > recently: Oh, missed a bunch of web-based things: Report on Interpreted Programming Languages www.cs.colorado.edu/~zorn/cs5535/Fall-1996/project

Re: Perl recommended reading list

2000-10-09 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 04:00 PM 10/9/00 +0200, Philip Newton wrote: >On 5 Oct 2000, at 15:06, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > > I should actually RFC it--we could use a "recommended reading" RFC. > >Have you had any further thoughts on this? Do you think you'll find >the tuits necessary? Well, here's a quick list, sans ISBN

Re: RFC 326 (v1) Symbols, symbols everywhere

2000-10-09 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:54 PM 10/5/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote: > > "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >DS> For the internals, though... > >DS> This would be very useful, and it's a feature I'd really like to >implement. >DS> Basically you're asking for pre-computed, indirect, shared hash key

Re: Perl recommended reading list

2000-10-09 Thread John Porter
Dan Sugalski wrote: > >The Mythical Man-Month >Fred Brooks That reminds me: I highly recommended "Anti-Patterns": www.antipatterns.com/briefing >Understanding Comics >Scott McCloud > >Tao Te Ching >Lao Tzu (translation by Ursula LeGuin) > >Alice in Wonderl

Re: Perl recommended reading list

2000-10-09 Thread Simon Cozens
Before I forget: (I read a *lot*) A Course In General Linguistics, F. de Saussure. tr. Roy Harris (If you don't know what relation this has to Perl, what are you doing here?) The Practice of Programming, Kernighan and Pike. (You mean you haven't read it yet?) Knots, R.D.

Re: Perl recommended reading list

2000-10-09 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:56 PM 10/9/00 -0400, John Porter wrote: >Dan Sugalski wrote: > > > >The Mythical Man-Month > >Fred Brooks > >That reminds me: I highly recommended "Anti-Patterns": > www.antipatterns.com/briefing Nifty. I think it's another book to add to the pile. (I might finish the pile

Re: RFC 334 (v1) Perl should allow specially attributed subs to be called as C functions

2000-10-09 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 08:50 PM 9/29/00 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: >On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 12:37:15PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > At 04:13 PM 9/29/00 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > >Are you suggesting that the attributes use the same mapping system as > > >the XS (or son-of-XS (XS++)) typemaps in lib/ExtUtils

autogen

2000-10-09 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
http://autogen.sourceforge.net/ Maybe everyone knows about this already but I didn't know about it until just now. Enjoy. -- May the best description of competition prevail. (via, but not speaking for Deutsche Bank)

Re: RFC 326 (v1) Symbols, symbols everywhere

2000-10-09 Thread Chaim Frenkel
> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Why precomputed? Any 'interned' string has a unique value (e.g. address). >> Though wouldn't they have to be garbage collected? Short lived hashes >> with constantly changing keys, the shared hash keys would keep growing. DS> I'm thinking

Re: Perl recommended reading list

2000-10-09 Thread Nathan Wiger
Dan Sugalski wrote: > > Alice in Wonderland is, of course, the quintessential CS text. It never > hurts to keep in mind that everything you know could well be wrong. :) Another one I'd like to suggest, which I suspect (hope?) most everyone has already read: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galax