Should I wait for the new edition of TDPL ?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 08:23:54PM +0200, simendsjo wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:20:45 +0200, H. S. Teoh
> <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
> 
> >Then one day my wife made me go to a bookstore with her. While there,
> >I offhandedly decided to look for TDPL, on the off-chance that it
> >*might* be in the computer books section. And sure enough, I found it
> >amid all the PHP, Javascript, how-to-build-a-sucky-website books. So
> >I bought it.
> 
> Having *real* computer books in the book shelf..?! You obviously
> don't live in Norway :)

lol... apparently I don't!

I have to say, though, that I very, very, VERY rarely buy computer
related books. Before TDPL, the last computer-related book I bought was
the Perl "camel book". And that was, oh, ... 15 years ago?


> And it's actually cheaper for me to order the book from Amazon in
> the US rather than order it in the book-store...

To be honest, I rarely find anything of value in my local bookstore's
bookshelves. Mostly it's just fiction (novels, comics, and the like),
reference books like the 201th edition of the Oxford, maps of outdated
places in the world, get-rich-quick-without-doing-work books, and
Javascript and PHP books. The fact that TDPL was buried in the midst of
that mountain of chaff was probably a miracle in and of itself.


T

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