This very much falls into the category of rambling, non-essential observations - Perl-related, but certainly not Getting anyThing Done (TM). If you're not in the mood, you've been warned.

Last night I was browsing in a mega-Barnes&Noble and cursing their paltry selection of Perl books. Python had four or five shelves, Ruby as many or more, Ajax galore, PHP books in bundles, but two - count them - two books on Perl. So I'm annoyed, and I begin grumbling about languages-of-the-minute, and like that. I then notice that over against a nearby wall, there's quite a lot of books for C, C++ and Java. I wander over, and sure enough, that area has lots of Perl paper-based goodness.

Here's the punchline: the section with lots of Ajax, Ruby, Python and company was called 'Programming Languages', and the section with C, C++, Java, JavaScript (sic) and Perl books was called 'Professional Computing'.

After considering for a minute, I thought, "Good enough."

In reply to The view from Barnes & Noble by telemachus

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