OT: hotbuy O'Reilly's Perl Resource Kit $150.00 value for 9.99 for UNIX with CD's

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, May 27, 2004, Fairlight wrote:
>At Wed, May 26, 2004 at 04:29:18PM -0500 or thereabouts, 
>suspect Tony Freehauf was observed uttering:
>> i was just at Micro Center in Chicago where they have a stack of O Reilly's 
>> Perl Resource Kit for $9.99.  This is a 5 book set with cd's for unix.  
>> Look's like a real value if you are a perl user.
>
>Unless they were old revisions which no longer tell the whole story.  I'm
>on like the third revision of the Camel.
>
>Still, for $10, I'd take the slightly outdated stuff and run with it and
>learn the balance from online docs.  I use both anyway.

The perl resource book is useful primarily because of the overview of
various perl modules.  The modules on the CDROMs will be out of date, but
are easy to get and build from CPAN.

Bill
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