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Co-author of Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook [oreilly.com]
openings
The first sentence of any piece of writing is important, and last night I read one of the best openings ever written. It sits atop the acknowledgements of The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, a 30 lb., 3-volume boxed tome that contains every Calvin and Hobbes comic strip every drawn:
"As flattering as it is to have a lavish book like this,
it can be a little disturbing to see one's own career
embalmed in a box..."
The ingenuity is underscored by appropriateness. Watterson downplays the magnitude of the collection, yet the contents of the box contains a large staple of my childhood.
Another teriffic opening is on the back cover blurb for Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook, written by chromatic:
"Can you think of a sexier topic in software development
than software testing?"
If there's a hall of fame for this sort of thing, let me know. I have two nominations.
an endless discussion thread about what features to include.
-- Jarkko Hietaniemi
In My Defense... (Score:1)
I was thinking of Andy Lester when I wrote that, knowing full well that I'd have to apologize for it eventually. Now I suspect I'll have to apologize for this comment too, also eventually.
First sentence says it all (Score:1)
between sentences in a text has a good first
sentence about the fact that if he could say all
he had to say in his book in one sentence, he
wouldn't have had to write the book.
I'm going to buy that set one day... (Score:1)
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