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From what I've seen, I'd dare to guess the number of decent Java books roughly equals that of decent Perl books. The rest is just buzzword compliant waste of paper. Whatever's currently popular will have tons of books in its name crowding the shelves. Why should we care?

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Re: Re: The Black Art of Perl Programming?
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 20, 2002 at 19:11 UTC
    Whatever's currently popular will have tons of books in its name crowding the shelves.

    I just don't like seeing Perl marginalized at the bookstore. Books are a medium just like Cyberspace.

    From what I've seen, I'd dare to guess the number of decent Java books roughly equals that of decent Perl books.

    Perl has a number of superb books. But Java has more books covering a wider array of subjects than Perl.

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