Re: YAC (Yet Another Challenge): Oldest Useful Computer Text

The first edition of Programming Perl by Larry and merlyn. I sill use it's Functions chapter when perldoc is not available. I see that it's celebrating it's sweet sixteen this year (© 1990)! (that makes me feel old)

-derby

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Re^2: YAC (Yet Another Challenge): Oldest Useful Computer Text by radiantmatrix (Parson) on Apr 14, 2006 at 15:36 UTC
FWIW, I have a "Perl programming CD" I carry everywhere (well, it's now a USB flash disk, but that's no matter) with the downloadable version of the html version of perldoc -- it uses JS for it's search function, so even without a net connection, it's still very useful. It also has a miniature CPAN on it with such things as CGI::Simple, my snippets and utility module collection, some useful scripts, and a working PXPerl (for when I have to work on a Win box that has no perl on it; I've not yet had that issue with a NIX machine...). <-radiant.matrix-> A collection of thoughts and links from the minds of geeks The Code that can be seen is not the true Code* I haven't found a problem yet that can't be solved by a well-placed trebuchet	[reply]

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Re^2: YAC (Yet Another Challenge): Oldest Useful Computer Text
by radiantmatrix (Parson) on Apr 14, 2006 at 15:36 UTC

FWIW, I have a "Perl programming CD" I carry everywhere (well, it's now a USB flash disk, but that's no matter) with the downloadable version of the html version of perldoc -- it uses JS for it's search function, so even without a net connection, it's still very useful.

It also has a miniature CPAN on it with such things as CGI::Simple, my snippets and utility module collection, some useful scripts, and a working PXPerl (for when I have to work on a Win box that has no perl on it; I've not yet had that issue with a *NIX machine...).

<-radiant.matrix->
A collection of thoughts and links from the minds of geeks
The Code that can be seen is not the true Code
I haven't found a problem yet that can't be solved by a well-placed trebuchet

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