Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:54:23 -0800 From: "Scott Overholser (Volt Computer) (Exchange)" <a-scotov@wspu.MICROSOFT.com> To: "'current@FreeBSD.org'" <current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: To pick a (perl) fight! Message-ID: <c=US%a=_%p=Microsoft%l=DABONE-960314175423Z-2237@yuri.microsoft.com>
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yes, methinks most folks do prefer books. however, the camel book is mostly the perl 4 manpages all bound up nicely. i've printed all 200 pages of the perl 5 manpages and put them into a small binder to make a pretty handy perl 5 reference book. scotto >---------- >From: Paul Richards[SMTP:p.richards@elsevier.co.uk] >Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 1996 4:01 PM >To: current@FreeBSD.org; hsu@freefall.freebsd.org >Subject: Re: To pick a (perl) fight! > >> I'd say that until Larry writes a Perl 5 book so that >> there's some easily accessible documentation for it then >> >> There are over a hundred pages in the perl 5 man pages split out >> over 27 sections. I believe free, printable, and searchable on-line >> man pages qualifies as easily accessible documentation. > >I think that's a matter of opinion :-) Most people I know (me included) >prefer a book any day of the month. >
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