Re: learning perl 3rd vs 4th
[email protected] ((Randal L. Schwartz))
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| Organization | Stonehenge Consulting Services; Portland, Oregon, USA |
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>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Lee <[email protected]> writes: Richard> I was going to order 5th version in june but does anyone in here know Richard> the different between 3rd and 4th version? Is there a big Richard> difference? As I recall, the big changes between 3rd and 4th were to finally acknowledge the existance of the alpaca book, and shuffle a bit of content between the llama and alpaca to reflect the corresponding changes we've made in our courseware. We released an updated alpaca after that as well. The 5th edition covers the new 5.10 features of interest to beginners, including some of the new regex options. print "Just another Perl hacker,"; -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[email protected]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion