Mastering Perl is at OSCON!

brian_d_foy on 2007-07-24T19:05:00

I finally got my hands on the hard-copy of Mastering Perl , which is on sell at the Powell's table. Get it at OSCON and you don't have to pay sales tax or shipping!

I'll be at the Powell's table with other authors at 1:30ish on Wednesday, July 25 if anyone want to stop by for me to sign any of my books. I will probably also be at Powell's Technical Books Wednesday evening for the Beautiful Code discussion, so you can catch up to me there.

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Mastering Perl or Advanced Perl Programming?

pubcra on 2007-07-24T19:59:08

brian,

I am a little confused. What's the difference between Mastering Perl and Advanced Perl Programming? They both seem pretty similar to me.

I am pretty comfortable with the contents of Learning Perl and Intermediate Perl and I am wondering which one of the advanced ones should I get and _why_?

Thx

pc

Re:Mastering Perl or Advanced Perl Programming?

brian_d_foy on 2007-07-24T20:26:23

Mastering Perl and Advanced Perl Programming (2nd Edition) are very different books, and O'Reilly was very careful to not overlap the topics. The tables of contents should let you figure out which one covers the topics you like.

Simon covered mostly specific domains, such as unicode, databases, and templates, where Mastering Perl has a lot more basic Perl stuff in it, and is much more broad.

Re:Mastering Perl or Advanced Perl Programming?

pubcra on 2007-07-24T20:39:31

Getting both then. Any idea which would be better to read first (difficulty wise)?

Re:Mastering Perl or Advanced Perl Programming?

Aristotle on 2007-07-24T21:34:34

Probably Mastering Perl, unless you’ve already got pretty strong Perl skills. Advanced Perl Programming is not as broadly applicable and not immediately relevant to every non-trivially sized Perl project, whereas Mastering Perl, in my understanding, is.