Re: Object Oriented Perfomance

[petdance]

Well, you've got perldoc perltoot to start with.

I really don't understand why people are so loathe to shell out a few bucks for their education. We're talking $40 to get Damian's book, easily the best computer book I've read in a while, and what has become the standard OO Perl text.

I mean, we're professionals here, right? Spend a few bucks in the name of education.

xoxo,
Andy

# Andy Lester  http://www.petdance.com  AIM:petdance
%_=split';','.; Perl ;@;st a;m;ker;p;not;o;hac;t;her;y;ju';
print map $_{$_}, split //,
'[e-mail]'

[PsychoSpunk]

I'm not sure if Lexicon can get it for that cheap. You're thinking in US terms, and he's not in the US currently.

ALL HAIL BRAK!!!

[dws]

Side note: Technical books actually cost less in some non-US places. And there's stuff available outside of the US that can't be found here, such as one of my prized possessions: Knuth in paperback, obtained by a friend in the UK.

[Vondikall]

Here in Iceland, Damiens book retails for about 6-7000 IKR which is about 60-70 USD.

[elwarren]

It would help if you told him the name of the book before attacking him for not buying it. Maybe he's never heard of the book, which sounds like a good reason to ask up here.

Here is the PerlMonks book review of Object Oriented Perl

It's not published by O'Reilly, so he may never have found it ;^}

[petdance]

It would help if you told him the name of the book before attacking him for not buying it. Maybe he's never heard of the book, which sounds like a good reason to ask up here.

This proves not to be the case.

He's well aware of the book in question. Check the small italic section at the end of the post. What I took issue with was that he seemed aghast at the notion of paying for information, especially when the book explicitly covers all of his concerns.

xoxo,
Andy

# Andy Lester  http://www.petdance.com  AIM:petdance
%_=split';','.; Perl ;@;st a;m;ker;p;not;o;hac;t;her;y;ju';
print map $_{$_}, split //,
'[e-mail]'

[elwarren]

A thousand pardons petdance, you are absolutely correct. I completely mistook the negative size two font comment at the end for a signature. Impossible to read on this monitor. Having not read PerlMonks all weekend, I was trying to skim as many posts as possible. Serves me right.