Re: Your opinion about a book

This is one of the most readable programming books that I know of (and it's funny but that's less important).

The newer edition (4th ed., 2012) is 120 pages longer, and probably updated throughout. Probably worth its money (but I admit: I don't have the newer book).

I have the older edition (3rd ed., 2000) here before me and looking through it it seems to me to be very useful already.

BTW, I do hope you'll get a few more expensive presents as well :)

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Re^2: Your opinion about a book by McA (Priest) on Aug 19, 2014 at 06:42 UTC
BTW, I do hope you'll get a few more expensive presents as well :) A present needs not to be expensive to be very valueable. ;) But back to the initial question: I had vibrations from my computer's fans which resulted in a very nerving noise while I was programming in Perl reducing my productivity extremely. And after I put this book (2nd edition) onto the computer case I got silence back. Therefore the book was worth every cent. ;) Regards McA	[reply]

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by McA (Priest) on Aug 19, 2014 at 06:42 UTC

BTW, I do hope you'll get a few more expensive presents as well :)

A present needs not to be expensive to be very valueable. ;)

But back to the initial question: I had vibrations from my computer's fans which resulted in a very nerving noise while I was programming in Perl reducing my productivity extremely. And after I put this book (2nd edition) onto the computer case I got silence back. Therefore the book was worth every cent. ;)

Regards
McA

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