>>>>> "Jim" == Jim C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jim> There was a lot of stuff removed from Learning Perl 3rd Ed that was in Jim> 2nd. It has been kind of cool to see what was removed. I guess they Jim> thought that some of the items were a: not important or relevant b: more Jim> advanced or c: deprecated (tm). I haven't seen anything added to 3rd Jim> that wasn't in 2nd though, I admit I don't reference that book that much Jim> anymore. We target the book to be readable in about 15-20 hours, and about 40 hours total completing the exercises. That's an important psychological chunk of time for us. So, in that timeframe, we have to decide what's the most important to learn that will provide the broadest base and most useful subset of Perl. Yes, some of the things that were talked about in LP-2 got removed in LP-3 to streamline the flow. But we added a lot of material in LP-3, especially breaking up the regex into three sections and expanding coverage of more advanced features. Also, the book was restructured to give more meaningful exercises earlier, and remove most of the "you must be a Unix sysadm to understand this" pre-req. Overall, I think LP-3 is one of the best three books I've been involved with (camel 1 is another of those three, and a book I did for a computer company years ago would be the third). It's a far better book than LP-2, and even better (except for the lack of Larry's preface) than LP-1. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <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! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
