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Books, Books, Books

pudge on 2003-05-21T12:51:15

TBR writes "TechBookReport includes a new review of Computer Science & Perl Programming."

SparkeyG writes "I just finished reading and reviewing the O'Reilly book Google Hacks."

yudel writes "Perl 6 Essentials has now been scheduled by ORA." That must mean the language itself is not too far behind!

Perl 6 imminent!

mike_arms on 2003-05-21T15:38:24

"Perl 6 Essentials has now been scheduled by ORA." That must mean the language itself is not too far behind!

Brought a good chuckle to my hump-day morning. Thanks.

--
Mike Arms

Perl 6 Essentials?

mshiltonj on 2003-05-21T17:15:02

Has anyone seen the content? Is it more than a compilation of the Apocalypse and Exegesis articles?

Funny you should ask this

rafael on 2003-05-21T19:25:43

Apparently there's quite some Parrot content.

Re:Funny you should ask this

Elian on 2003-05-22T16:27:41

Quite a bit--the last two chapters are on Parrot, one on the architecture, and another on practical programming in parrot assembly. I'm not sure what the final page count for the parrot stuff is, but it is (IIRC) in excess of 50 pages.

Re:Perl 6 Essentials?

cogent on 2003-05-23T11:21:31

I was a tech. editor. I can say that it is in no way a compilation of Apocalypses and Exegeses, but a highly distilled summary of current Perl 6 thought.

I once sat through what ended up being half of what would've been a day-long lecture on the structure of Perl 6, by Damian. To me, the first half of this book had the feel of that talk. The second half of the book had the feel of a Parrot talk by Dan.

Concur (mostly) with the Google Hacks review

Fletch on 2003-05-21T18:18:18

I got some useful information out of it, but there were a couple of nits:

  • what seemed to be lots of repetition in some of the hacks (after the 8th time reading that it's against Google's TOS to screen scrape it eventually sunk in, the other 27 times aren't necessary); granted the hacks are meant to be more self contained, just say it once at the beginning of the chapter
  • the multi-colour typesetting seemed off, at least in my copy (like things weren't registered right; more of a distraction)

Other than a couple of other trivial typos, it's well worth the 18$US I found it on special for.