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- From: merlyn@ora.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: Re: Thanks to all of you that bought camel books!
- Message-ID: <MERLYN.92Dec16173634@romulus.reed.edu>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 01:36:43 GMT
- Article-I.D.: romulus.MERLYN.92Dec16173634
- References: <MERLYN.92Dec8142116@romulus.reed.edu> <1992Dec16.160615.2054@cognos.com>
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- In-Reply-To: alanm@cognos.com's message of 16 Dec 92 16:06:15 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec16.160615.2054@cognos.com> alanm@cognos.com (Alan Myrvold) writes:
- But how does 10" of new snow delay things?
- Were you alpine skiing, telemarking, x-country skate style,
- x-country classical, or just frustrated at the traffic headaches?
- My bet is on Randal being a radical snowboarding dude. :-)
-
- Nope. Alpine. I'm basically lazy when it gets cold. :-) And this is
- only my second season (but I've been up 5 times already). We got 45
- inches of *new* snow by last Saturday in one week, and then it was
- clear blue no-wind. Way cool.
-
- Snowboarding looks weird... you spend all your time going sideways. I
- don't want to do that, either on the hill, or on the drive up. :-) I
- don't skateboard either, having spent 3000 hours on conventional
- roller skates instead. (Why do you think the example in the Camel
- book finds the intersection of skaters and pilots? Those are all real
- names, by the way.)
-
- I found the tutorial in the Camel book quite good for learning Perl,
- but then again, I had read the man page all the way through first.
- Plus, how long will Learning Perl exist before it is obsoleted by version 5
- changes?
-
- Practically all of the code is unaffected by perl4 to perl5... it's
- just that some of the stated limitations may be lifted. There are
- references to Perl 5 in LP already. In fact, now that the schedule is
- out a few extra months, I may get closer cooperation with Larry to
- preview the book in light of the real Perl 5, rather than the
- theoretical Perl 5.
-
- print "Just another Perl hacker," # and ski bum
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