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:
>Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
>At about Wed, May 26, 2004 at 11:08:27PM -0700,
>Bill Campbell blabbed on about:
>> 
>> 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  The modules on the CDROMs will be out of date, but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.
>
>Yeah, but even the availability of modules and such are subject to change
>more frequently than some people change socks.  Wouldn't it be more helpful
>to just do a live search on CPAN anyway?  I can name at least three Tk::
>modules that are megawidget classes that are being developed currently, as
>a case in point.

That's certainly true, but the main benefit I got from the O'Reilly perl
modules book was having some documentation for a bunch of useful packages
all in one place with a bit of narrative telling what they do.  This can be
very useful for somebody just getting into perl and CPAN.

OT from this OT, I would like to find something similar to this that
addresses python, zope, and plone packages and products as I'm just
starting to climb that learning curve.

>Something like that is almost like buying a new CPU--it's outdated within a
>few months of getting it.

Progress, not perfection.

Bill
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