in reply to TPJ Reborn

Dr. Orwant is now a co-author of Camel. (Our own Merlyn is, hopefully by his own choice, out.) The next-to-last page of Camel III mentions prominently that Mad Dog Orwant is the Editor of the Perl Journal.

Since Camel III is the pre-eminent Perl book, it is somewhat embarassing that its pre-eminent journal is defunct. I mean, I see people reading Cold Fusion Journal on the subway. XML Journal. Java Journal.

Sorry that Mad Dog had to go through a lot of grief to bring TPJ back, but I will be buying it at Borders again when he does.

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Re: Re: TPJ Reborn
by merlyn (Sage) on Apr 12, 2001 at 02:37 UTC
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      Sorry to hear that. I wondered how you could lose your co-authorship of Camel in the new edition. After all, parts of II are incorporated in III. If you wrote any of those parts then someone has violated your copyright.

      But I am sure you know all that.

      Unfortunately, there may be nothing you can do about it. Those of us on this forum will eventually get the word, and we will think less of O'Reilly than we would have otherwise.

      Clearly no one is going to boycott O'Reilly. They do a lot for Perl that they need not do. But some of the goodwill that they earned gets used up in incidents such as this one.

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