I agree with the below analysis. Only thing I might say is that a person with good programming experience/habits and a familarity with the command line (specifically unix) might be able to dive right in to Programming Perl without first stopping off at Learning Perl (save time and money). A lot has changed though since I took this route back when the Camel 2nd edition was brand new.
While on the subject I thought I would throw this out to the crowd. I am currently and finally working my way through the OOP Perl book by Conway and a few of the things seem a little dated with respect to how Perl can handle things, and the preferred method at least from what has been posted on this list of handling those things. While the main points are all still very well done, I was wondering if there might be a second edition in the near future to re-address the finer points of syntax, newer base modules, etc. that have come from a change from 5.00x to 5.8.0? http://danconia.org ------------------------------------------------ On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 11:45:31 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Conway's book is excellent!! Definitelly the source for OO perl. But it has some >very advanced concepts and assumes a thorough understanding of basic Perl. (He >dedicates the first two chapters of the book to an Perl and OO concepts refresher >course). So if you're just starting out, definitelly start with the two books >recommended below. > > Bear in mind that OO Perl is just Perl that has a function called bless. bless takes >a perl reference and sticks it into a package namepsace that then allows you to call >methods (functions) on that reference (now called an object). Everything else >(private vs. public properties, class vs. object properties, private vs. public >methods etc..) is all done with smoke and mirrors which Conway covers extremelly well >in OO Perl. > > ~mark. > > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 11:18:15AM +0100, Dharmender Rai wrote: > > > > go for [1] Learning Perl > > [2] Programming Perl > > > > Both are published by Oreilly > > > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello > > > > > > I ordered a book(Perl Object Oriented Programming by > > > Damian Conway) to > > > learn Perl from scratch. But I'm not sure whether it > > > is right to begin > > > learning Perl with the Object Oriented aspect of it. > > > I have some > > > knowledge of Object Oriented Programming in Java. > > > > > > Which aspect of perl should I begin with? Perl Mod, > > > OOP??? etc. > > > Your opinions will be appreciated. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Everything you'll ever need on one web page > > from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts > > http://uk.my.yahoo.com > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
