merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) (01/12/90)
In article <839@batman.moravian.EDU>, music@batman (music) writes: | In article <6729@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes: | > In article <4033@helios.TAMU.EDU> jak9213@helios.UUCP (John Kane) writes: | > : What I do need is something that will point me in the right direction as | > : far as getting started in using perl. | > Randal and I are working on it. Someday you may have an S&W on your shelf. | It would be _wonderful_ if you were able to compile a book explaining | PERL _at least_ as elucidating as A. K. & W.'s "The AWK Programming | Language". Learning a language from man pages (even extensive ones) | and examining others' scripts, while an important step in the process, | is NOT very efficient (believe me, I've used this approach on about 5 | languages, most of which I eventually got a reasonable command of, but | only after many arduous hours/days/weeks/months/years of study & | experimenting when a _GOOD_ tutorial would have made the job much less | frustrating and time-consuming (especially for self-taught hacks like | myself!)). PERL appears to be a fascinating language with considerable | potential for the kind of work I do, but the syntax IS intimidating, | so I will certainly welcome S&W's "The PERL Programming Language" (by | any name it should smell as sweet). PLEASE make a NETWORK-WIDE | ANNOUNCEMENT when it is available! You can *bet* we'll be announcing it when it becomes available. (Ever heard of "royalties"? :-) We'll also be announcing opportunities for contribution and pre-publication review. (And, don't'cha just suppose that a lot of the little fragments that have been published on the net are going to make their way into the examples...) And Larry, isn't it "By Larry Wall, as told to Randal Schwartz"? :-) I know, that doesn't ring as well as "S&W". We are still in negotiation with the publisher about schedule and payment. But, we have a tenative outline for the book, and an idea about how long it will take for Larry and me to complete it. Just another Perl hacker, -- /== Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ====\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \== Cute Quote: "Welcome to Oregon... Home of the California Raisins!" ==/