Installing Net::FTP on Solaris (was: Re: Effective Perl Programming - Still valid, dated 1998?)

2005-02-16 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Please start a new thread when sending an unrelated question, don't reply to a previous thread to prevent being ignored. Pablo Wolter wrote: Hi, I have a stupid question to you guys; I need to install Net::Ftp module on a solaris production machine and feeling insecure to screw up the system in

Re: Effective Perl Programming - Still valid, dated 1998?

2005-02-16 Thread Gavin Henry
>> "Gavin" == Gavin Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gavin> I suppose certain parts of Perl, i.e. the fundamentals don't > Gavin> change, so it is probably worth it. > > There are definitely some timeless parts, but there are also > some parts that have better solutions now. > > Gavin> Sh

Re: Effective Perl Programming - Still valid, dated 1998?

2005-02-15 Thread Pablo Wolter
Hi, I have a stupid question to you guys; I need to install Net::Ftp module on a solaris production machine and feeling insecure to screw up the system installing the wrong one. How can I now wich module version to install? I do that all the time on my linux machine, but this time is a productio

Re: Effective Perl Programming - Still valid, dated 1998?

2005-02-15 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Gavin" == Gavin Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gavin> I suppose certain parts of Perl, i.e. the fundamentals don't Gavin> change, so it is probably worth it. There are definitely some timeless parts, but there are also some parts that have better solutions now. Gavin> Should I buy this

Re: Effective Perl Programming

2002-05-21 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Beau E. Cox) writes: > Gee whiz - All I wanted were comments on the book... > Has anyone out there read it? Yes, of course. It's great. One thing I really liked about it when I read it[1] was that it's short usable snippets. Read it before falling asleep, or in the bathroom

RE: Effective Perl Programming

2002-05-20 Thread Jackson, Harry
I noticed that the london pm website was down so got the from Dean. Please see review below. H Elements of Programming With Perl Andrew L Johnson If you come from a non-programming background and you want to learn Perl go and buy this book. Now. The rest of the review will wait until you get ba

RE: Effective Perl Programming

2002-05-19 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
--- "Beau E. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gee whiz - All I wanted were comments on the book... > Has anyone out there read it? One day I was out walking in the woods... carrying a basket of food for granny... when I stumbed across: http://learn.perl.org/ there is a pair of book reviews, i

RE: Effective Perl Programming

2002-05-19 Thread Beau E. Cox
Gee whiz - All I wanted were comments on the book... Has anyone out there read it? Aloha - Beau. -Original Message- From: Jonathan E. Paton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 10:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Effective Perl Programming --- Timothy Johnson

RE: Effective Perl Programming

2002-05-19 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
--- Timothy Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find that subtleties like Paul's are lost on the > majority of users and programmers alike out there. > I prefer the more direct method of: > > > ##

Effective Design in lieu of hearding coders - Re: Effective Perl Programming

2002-05-19 Thread drieux
On Sunday, May 19, 2002, at 12:25 , Timothy Johnson wrote: > I find that subtleties like Paul's are lost on the majority of users and > programmers alike out there. I prefer the more direct method of: [..] To be honest - herding coders is not a reasonable idea - and generically should be left

RE: Effective Perl Programming

2002-05-19 Thread Timothy Johnson
ETLY BE PLEASED WITH YOURSELF # FOR FINALLY USING THE WORD RUE IN A SENTENCE) -Original Message- From: drieux To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 5/19/02 9:07 AM Subject: Re: Effective Perl Programming On Sunday, May 19, 2002, at 08:26 , Paul Johnson wrote: >> just because it may be corre

Re: Effective Perl Programming

2002-05-19 Thread drieux
On Sunday, May 19, 2002, at 08:26 , Paul Johnson wrote: >> just because it may be correct, still makes me nervous > > I actually find it to be quite a useful concept. One can make use of it > to ensure that people don't "accidently" add code or data at the end of > something that they shoul

Re: Effective Perl Programming

2002-05-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 03:48:30PM -0700, drieux wrote: > hence why we sometimes see > > sub fooBarbazBob { > my ( @arglist ) = @_; > > .. > > $retThing > } > > and it does not 'need' to have a ';' "delimiter since > it is the final ob

Re: Effective Perl Programming

2002-05-18 Thread John W. Krahn
Drieux wrote: > > On Saturday, May 18, 2002, at 03:08 , John W. Krahn wrote: > > > > A separator is required _between_ objects. A terminator is required _at > > the end of_ objects. A delimiter is required _at the beginning and end_ > > of objects. > > > > Quotation marks, braces, brackets, and

Re: Effective Perl Programming

2002-05-18 Thread drieux
On Saturday, May 18, 2002, at 03:08 , John W. Krahn wrote: [..] > > A separator is required _between_ objects. A terminator is required _at > the end of_ objects. A delimiter is required _at the beginning and end_ > of objects. > > Quotation marks, braces, brackets, and parenthesis are delimite

Re: Effective Perl Programming

2002-05-18 Thread John W. Krahn
Drieux wrote: > > On Saturday, May 18, 2002, at 12:53 , John W. Krahn wrote: > > > Semi-colons, like commas, are separators not terminators. > > fore the semantically disenabled, the distinction betwee > the notion of a 'separator' and a 'terminator' is what? A separator is required _between_

Re: Effective Perl Programming

2002-05-18 Thread drieux
On Saturday, May 18, 2002, at 12:53 , John W. Krahn wrote: > Semi-colons, like commas, are separators not terminators. fore the semantically disenabled, the distinction betwee the notion of a 'separator' and a 'terminator' is what? > > John > [0] sorry I'm keeping it. > [1] for you acronymly i

Re: Effective Perl Programming

2002-05-18 Thread John W. Krahn
"Beau E. Cox" wrote: > > Hi all - Hello, > I would like to recommend "Effective Perl Programming" by Joseph N. Hall > with Randal L, Schwartz, Addison-Wesley, 1998, ISBN 0-201-41975-0. Although > "old", it has really helped my style. Anyone want an autographed copy?[0] :-) > I was raised wit