giacomo boffi (boffi@rachele.stru.polimi.it) wrote:
> Richard Coleman <coleman@math.gatech.edu> writes:
> > What's make tcl/tk and perl good languages is that they are general
> > purpose hammers.
> may i add that their developers apparently love to write good
> documentation?
I disagree. I own copies of both the Camel and Llama books. The
first one, "Learning Perl", does a decent job as a language
introduction. The second book, I think, tries to be both a tutorial
and a reference manual. This has the result that it does neither
well. There's too much information, and it's too dense, so it's not a
good tutorial/intro. Plus, the material isn't organized in a very
useful or findable fashion, so it's not particularly useful as a
reference. (Yes, I know about the chapter containing function
definitions; I'm referring mostly to syntactic rules, regexps, file
operators, and so forth.)
I haven't read the tcl/tk docs, so I can't comment on those, but I
would have constructed the Perl docs very differently.
Richard
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