>>>>> "Wiggins" == Wiggins d'Anconia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Wiggins>  Unless you are already familar with OOP concepts you are
Wiggins> better off with the LPORM book than Conway's, as Object
Wiggins> Oriented Perl is more difficult to read without already
Wiggins> knowing a lot of the OOP terminology. It is also a bit
Wiggins> dated. (Both of these comments are not intended to discredit
Wiggins> the book or the man, it is still an excellent and thorough
Wiggins> source, and his work certainly speaks for itself.)

And in fact, I'd support that as well.  LPORM is a tutorial, and necessarily
skimpy on some of the subjects OOP covers.  Think of llama : alpaca
as camel : OOP.  The tutorial books mirror the reference books.

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