You also seem to want very specific books to exist, rather than more all-encompassing books that cover the fundamentals

Yes, it seems that Perl books cover a lot fundamentals, which is a good thing, but I would also like to see books aimed at more specific areas. Perl works extremely well with databases, but how many books on Perl and databases are out there? Probably less than 10 (but most of the time you will only find 1 or 2 at a bookstore). On the other hand, a simple search on Amazon shows that there are close 80 books dealing with Java and databases alone. Yes, 80

Quite frankly, I am surprised by these numbers, which give me the feeling that it is difficult to get a Perl book published right now (okay, at least, harder than trying to get a Java book to print). What are the implications of these numbers? They are not good for Perl. I wish I had a solution. I guess I would like to walk into one of these bookstores and see bookshelves stockpiled with Perl books on all sorts of subjects and the magazine stand filled with TPJ, but that ain't happening any time soon.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: The Black Art of Perl Programming? by Anonymous Monk
in thread The Black Art of Perl Programming? by Anonymous Monk

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