in reply to Re: Is a Perl glossary necessary?
in thread Is a Perl glossary necessary?

The closest thing I ever found to a Perl dictonary was The Coriolis Group's Perl Black Book, which has served me well and saved my butt a few times. It's similar to O'Reilly's Perl cookbook, but a bit more for the beginner.

Unfortunately Coriolis is apparently out of business, so the only way to find these now is used.

All in all, the whole concept is an excellent idea to pursue, although I think you're right in that teaching in some particular context is perhaps a better slant than just another available reference.

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Re: Re: Re: Is a Perl glossary necessary?
by Tanalis (Curate) on Oct 09, 2002 at 07:03 UTC
    As far as I can tell, Coriolis is certainly not out of business - at least, they're still publishing books. Amazon.co.uk has the Perl Black Book new at £41.99 here.

    As far as a Perl glossary/dictionary goes, I think it's a fantastic idea. I'm relatively new to Perl myself, and although I have a lot of experience with other languages, some of the concepts could certainly have been explained much better.

    I think the idea is certainly worthy of follow-up, and I'm pretty sure that there's plenty of people out there that'd be willing to help set something like that up.

    --Foxcub

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      If Amazon still has it for sale, I'd pick it up quickly.

      As far as them still being in business, a few weeks ago I tried calling their offices in Arizona, but the phones were disconnected -- not a good sign. In addition, a technical bookseller told me that they had gone under, but hadn't heard if anyone was going to purchase them or what was going to happen.

      Hopefully my information is dated, and they're going to bounce back healthy and strong. They produce a wonderful series of reference books for a lot of languages.

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