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Author Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
Randal L. Schwartz

2004-09-30, 11:24 am

>>>>> "John" == John W Krahn <krahnj@telus.net> writes:

John> You might hurt his feelings, he didn't contribute to the third edition
John> of Programming Perl.

Actually, it's worse than that. I contributed to it, but wasn't credited
for it or paid for it.

John> Better to buy his latest book _Learning Perl
John> Objects, References & Modules_ ;-)

Yes, or Learning Perl. Both good books, from what I hear. I dunno,
I write'em, not read 'em. :)

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Gavin Henry

2004-09-30, 3:57 pm

On Thursday 30 Sep 2004 13:19, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>
> John> You might hurt his feelings, he didn't contribute to the third
> edition John> of Programming Perl.
>
> Actually, it's worse than that. I contributed to it, but wasn't credited
> for it or paid for it.


Can you reveal anymore about this, as I read it on stonehenge too.

>
> John> Better to buy his latest book _Learning Perl
> John> Objects, References & Modules_ ;-)
>
> Yes, or Learning Perl. Both good books, from what I hear. I dunno,
> I write'em, not read 'em. :)


Ha, this is great.

>
> --
> Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095
> <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>
> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc.
> See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl
> training!


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