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• More details? (Score:1)

  by barryp (2829)

  Both the Amazon and Manning sites provide very little details on this book. In fact, I couldn't find any mention of it on the Manning website. Where can we see a Table of Contents? Thanks.
  • Re:More details? (Score:5, Informative)

    by Simon (89)

    Manning are working on a web site for the book right now. Meanwhile, Slash won't let me post a full table of contents [simon-cozens.org], but here's a list of chapters:

    • Chapter 1. C for Perl Programmers
    • Chapter 2. Introduction to XS
    • Chapter 3. Advanced C
    • Chapter 4. Perl's Variable Types
    • Chapter 5. The Perl 5 API
    • Chapter 6. Advanced XS Programming
    • Chapter 7. Alternatives to XS
    • Chapter 8. Embedding Perl in C
    • Chapter 9. Embedding Case Study
    • Chapter 10. Introduction to Perl Internals
    • Chapter 11. Hacking Perl
    • Re:More details? (Score:2, Interesting)

      by barryp (2829)

      Thanks, Simon. Based on the full TOC on your site, this looks like a must-have. But, will the arrival of Perl 6 not break your book, or will the Perl API in Perl 6 mimic that in Perl 5?
      • Re:More details? (Score:5, Interesting)

        by Simon (89)

        will the arrival of Perl 6 not break your book

        You'd think I'd have thought of that before writing it, eh? OK, here it is: Perl 6 isn't even on the horizon yet. I'm betting it'll be at least two years (Yes, Perl 6 is nearly two years old already, and the beta was due last year. Work it out.) before we see a 6.0.0.

        Even then, I reckon another another year or so before it gets reasonably well used. Remember the fun we had trying to persuade people to move to Perl 5 from Perl 4? That one was backwards compat
        • Re:More details? (Score:1)

          by barryp (2829) on 2002.05.23 3:38 (#8743) Homepage

          At last! An honest-to-God opinion of when we can expect to see Perl 6 'in the flesh'. Thanks for the reply. Good luck with the book, I look forward to reading it.

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