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The Year's Best Perl Essays (a diverse anthology)

... kinda like "The Year's Best Science Fiction Short Stories"...

Am I the only one with a short attention span? A lot of the particular things I'd like to read regarding Perl shouldn't have to be book-length. (Maybe that's why I spend so much of my free time roaming through the Monastery, instead of reading books.)

I was tempted to say "who needs books when you have perldoc?" But I can't deny that some documentation authors seem to be less equal to the task than others, and some supplemental reading can be handy in certain cases. I couldn't read a whole book about "pack/unpack", but something a bit more "expository and demonstrative" than the description in perlfunc -- e.g. having the length of serious journal article -- would be nifty. (Mind you, I don't blame the author of that man-page section, or demean his/her efforts: I doubt I could do better on such a vast topic.)


In reply to Re: Unwritten Perl Books by graff
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