Published at LXer:
I guess I was a tad surprised that O'Reilly's
"Mastering Perl" is a first edition. After all,
Learning Perl is in it's fourth edition and was published over 2 years ago. I was also surprised (I guess I don't keep up) that O'Reilly had published the first edition of
Intermediate Perl over a year ago. Usually for a particular programming language, O'Reilly publishes a
"Learning" and a
"Mastering" book. I know Perl is no cake walk, but does it really need this much attention? Also, why wait four editions into
"Learning Perl" before publishing more advanced texts on this language?
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