November 2002
Intermediate to advanced
758 pages
19h 45m
English
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Foreword
Mark Jason Dominus
It’s flattering that Jon Orwant invited me to write the foreword for this book. After all, the title is “Computer Science and Perl Programming,” and that pretty much covers it all: “Programming” is anything with any practical relevance, and “Computer Science” neatly includes everything else. You folks haven’t seen the Table of Contents for the second and third Best of TPJ books yet, but I have. Take my word for it, they’re concerned with “Computer Science and Programming” also.
Why did I get this job? Partly because I’ve written more articles for TPJ than anyone else, unless you count Chris Nandor’s “Perl News” columns. But I think it’s also because I got a reputation for writing articles about “Computer Science and Programming,” at least as much as anyone except perhaps Damian Conway. And Damian’s too busy to write forewords, whereas I’m unemployed.
Perhaps I should say something about what you’ll find in this book. The theory is that the casual browser standing in the bookstore might flip to the foreword to find out what the book is about. It’s a rotten theory, because hardly anyone reads the foreword even after they’ve bought the book. More likely, you are a reviewer, hoping for some guidance about what to say in the review. Hello, reviewer! I am happy to assist.
This book is indeed the “Best of the Perl Journal,” biased though my opinion might be by the inclusion of ten of my own articles. It does not suffer from the usual flaw of the anthology, which ...
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