On Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 10:22 , nkuipers wrote:
[..]
for someone who intends to pursue Perl while he's still breathing, would
you
recommend purchasing the Cookbook as an investment in skills and
time-saving?
[..]
it would have been nice to have had it around when
i started playing with perl in '90 - when all we had
was perl4 and the first edition....
getting a chance to see how others may already have solved
a given class of problem can save a lot on the development
cycle of
write
run
pull hair out
rewrite
run
consider migrating to a new planet
rewrite
{ repeat until it works or you go totally FruitLoops.... }
but if you like the part about pulling out your hair,
hey, don't let me prevent you....
ciao
drieux
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