My number one compaint about the book is that it has been taking up a slot on my Safari bookshelf for 2 weeks and I haven't even looked in it yet. Damn book!

Of course I am being presumptuous here because I am not really a seasoned Perl programmer, I've been an analyst and a manager far to long to be a good programmer.

I am now well into chapter 3. First, Wow, I was doing a better job than I thought; of course I really learned how to code from K&R and they were correct to begin with. :)

Please note, If you have your editor set to convert all tabs to spaces you will run into a problem with Makefiles. Command lines in Makefiles MUST begin with a tab character, spaces will not work. Of course, Damian is writing about perl and what he says is spot on, especially the section on vertical alignment (2.15)

Love,
Brig