Doesn't say anything on manning's site (publisher) although they do have an eBook edition now for download for $16.50. Check out http://www.manning.com/Conway/
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 08:20:04AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
