Re: Reading group for PATH (fwd)

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> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 23:30:55 -0400 (EDT)
> From: rspier@seas.upenn.edu (Robert Spier)
> To: phl@lists.pm.org
> Subject: Re: Reading group for PATH 
> 
> >>>>> "m" == mjd-perl-pm  <mjd-perl-pm@plover.com> writes:
> >> Is it the kind of thing beginners as well as perl experts can
> >> appreciate?
> 
> m> Maybe some of the folks on the list who have already looked at the
> m> sample chapters would be able to say somthing more concrete.
> 
> I think its really hard to judge.  There's nothing lost by reading the 
> chapters, so my opinion is to sign up for the list, read the chapters, 
> and if you don't get them, wait for the book.  
> 
> Most of the 'perl' in the first two chapters is quite understandable,
> and it's definitely stuff to learn if you're intersted in
> _programming_ as opposed to just parsing CGI data.
> 
> And heck, some of it (chapter two especially) is quite applicable to
> CGI stuff.
> 
> (Hmm.. am I reinforcing the web stigmata that perl has?  I wrote an
> assembler in it today.  Maybe that counterbalances it.)
> 
> -R
> 
> 

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