From: schneik@...
Date: 2000-03-27T14:48:55-06:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02196] Re: Use 'Learning Perl' to learn Ruby



Lots of people wrote:

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When I last noticed this issue of translating Perl books being discussed in
comp.lang.python (maybe a couple of months ago or so), the Perl book of
choice for doing a Python variant seemed to be "The Perl Cookbook". Because
this book is more task-oriented than feature-oriented, this is also my
first choice for a Perl to Ruby translation.

I have, but haven't read, the Perl OO book, which looked good enough to
purchase. It would probably also be useful to translate into Ruby.

Instead of "Learning Perl" (which is a good book), I prefer the much larger
"Programming Perl" book.

(Note that the Three Titans of Perl did not foolishly call their book
"Scripting Perl"; and in the process of dispelling myths about Perl, they
describe Perl as a "sophisticated, general purpose programming language
with a rich software development environment....")

Conrad Schneiker
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