>>>>> "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.

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