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J. David Blackstone has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering and nine years of experience at a wireless telecommunications company, where he learned Perl and never looked back. J. David has an advantage in that he works really hard, he has a passion for writing good software, and he knows many of the world's best Perl programmers.
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J. David Blackstone has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering and nine years of experience at a wireless telecommunications company, where he learned Perl and never looked back. J. David has an advantage in that he works really hard, he has a passion for writing good software, and he knows many of the world's best Perl programmers.
Thursday July 12, 2007
09:53 AM
Dan gave me a pink camel
An old boss who works in my building is getting rid of a lot of his old books, and he just gave me a 1st edition Programming perl! I'm ecstatic because I've always intended to get one of these from my library because:
- It's the book I first learned Perl from: sentimental reasons
- I got a real kick out of the Job examples in the book. Who could forget open PRINTER, ">/dev/ctp"; to open the clay tablet printer device?
- I remember it as looking like a simple and effective text to learn programming in general from, not just Perl. My kids may learn from portions of this book some day.
Interestingly enough, I seem to recall that when our little group realized we had outgrown Perl 4 (which happened far later than it should have), this same boss, at the time a coworker in a another group, was the man who loaned us our first 2nd edition Camel.
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Ahh, the memories... (Score:2)
It was really great to work with Larry on that book... our humor styles were similar enough that when we got to the glossary, and I stubbed in a few dummy terms (Regular Expression: /Oh s.*t./) just to keep things moving, Larry and I quickly agreed that we could do some of the terms as a joke, other terms seriously, and a few somewhat ambiguously.
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Thanks for the book, the humor, and the community. :)
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers