Learning Perl, Fourth Edition

Acknowledgments

Thanks to our reviewers David H. Adler, Dave Cross, Chris Devers, Paul Fenwick, Stephen Jenkins, Matthew Musgrove, and Wil Wheaton for providing comments on the draft of this book.

Thanks to our many students who have let us know what parts of the course material have needed improvement over the years. It’s because of you that we’re all so proud of it today.

Thanks to the many Perl Mongers who have made us feel at home as we’ve visited your cities. Let’s do it again sometime.

And finally, our sincerest thanks to our friend Larry Wall, for having the wisdom to share his cool and powerful toys with the rest of the world so that we can all get our work done just a little bit faster, easier, and with more fun.

From Randal

I want to thank the Stonehenge trainers past and present (Joseph Hall, Tom Phoenix, Chip Salzenberg, brian d foy, and Tad McClellan) for their willingness to go out and teach in front of classrooms week after week and to come back with their notes about what’s working so we could fine-tune the material for this book. I especially want to single out my coauthor and business associate, Tom Phoenix, for having spent many hours working to improve Stonehenge’s Llama course and to provide the wonderful core text for most of this book. And brian d foy for being the lead writer of the fourth edition, including taking that eternal to-do item out of my inbox so that it would finally happen.

I want to thank everyone at O’Reilly, especially our very patient editor and ...