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Didn't even finish reading. It's a nice book for people who want Perl as a scripting language to automate some common tasks, but maybe I'm too much involed with larger projects to judge.

That's a good point. Do you think Robert's tutorial was ever intended as anything more than that? I'm not saying it is as good as the 2nd llama, but it doesn't fall that far below it, and it does rank a good ways above learning Perl from Matts scripts, and it is free. Yet the llama is "nice" and Robert's tutorial is nauseating. A few points of comparison between 2nd llama your list of "mistakes".

But I suspect neither you nor screamer ever used the word nauseating in describing the 2nd llama.

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by Juerd (Abbot) on Jun 07, 2002 at 17:58 UTC

    Yet the llama is "nice" and Robert's tutorial is nauseating. ... But I suspect neither you nor screamer ever used the word nauseating in describing the 2nd llama.

    I would like to clear this up: not the tutorial by Robert Pepper is nauseating, but it being one of the better tutorials is. The Llama being this bad is too. How awful. :(

    You point out some things about the Llama that I either forgot or didn't know because I read only a few chapters. Your list made me wonder how much Pepper borrowed from the Llama, but as I don't have that book I will probably not find out.

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