The blurb of PERL from the GROUND UP [sic] reads:
Open this Book as a Novice
and Finish it as a Pro
Discussed this with richardc. Questions we thought needed answering:
- If you start reading it as a Pro, will it immediately turn you back into a Novice?
- Can you save time by just reading the end and become a Pro right away?
- What happens if you read it backwards? Will it drain out all your knowledge?
I was reminded for some reason of the bit of
Raiders of the Lost Ark where the spirits come out of the Ark of the Covenant and melt people's faces off. We decided in the end it was safer not to open the book at all.
Don't hold it up to a mirror!
merlyn on 2004-03-01T19:00:23
That reminds me a bit of
what I wrote about reading Learning Perl.
for( $x = 0; $x = 5000; $x++ ) {}
schwern on 2004-03-02T08:56:47
Look carefully at
this picture from my Ineffective Perl Programming talk at the first YAPC. I wonder if that's still in there.
Plus ca change.
sdrawkcab
drhyde on 2004-03-02T08:59:44
If you read it backwards and start as an orp you will become an ecivon.
