in reply to Cultured Perl: Three Essential Perl Books

Of the three books reviewed, only the Cookbook I would call essential IMO.

"Perl 6 Essentials" is really about vaporware (and absolutely confusing to people trying to learn Perl, I guess), while "Perl Template Toolkit" deals with stuff outside the core language and libraries.

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Re: Re: Cultured Perl: Three Essential Perl Books
by chromatic (Archbishop) on May 18, 2004 at 18:40 UTC
    "Perl 6 Essentials" is really about vaporware

    Funny; I have Parrot and Perl 6 installed on multiple machines.

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      Seriously? You have a working Perl 6 that implements the syntax decided so far? I didn't think it was that far along yet.
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        Not all of it; it's missing rules, as Parrot doesn't support them yet and objects, as Parrot only recently had them added and it has some odd limitations and strange bugs here and there, but it does exist and runs actual Perl 6 code.

        You'd be crazy to do anything serious with it at this point, but the code's publicly available. This is neither Cairo nor Duke Nukem Forever.

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