use Perl

• Plus lots of nice Apress books on Perl (Score:1)

  by davebaker (4482)

  A Perl renaissance!

  Lots of nice stuff from other publishers, too, especially Apress: Perl 6 Now: The Core Ideas Illustrated with Perl 5 [apress.com], Pro Perl Debugging [apress.com], Pro Perl Parsing [apress.com], Randal Schwartz's Perls of Wisdom [apress.com], Beginning Perl Web Development: From Novice to Professional [apress.com], Pro Perl [apress.com].
  • Re:Plus lots of nice Apress books on Perl (Score:1)

    by Allison (3003)

    All good books, and I highly recommend them. Oddly, they didn't contribute to the spike (though they are part of the ongoing Perl market).
    • Re:Plus lots of nice Apress books on Perl (Score:1)

      by GiantPencil (6191)

      Well I'd like to say a big hello from NZ but you must be busy on or holiday or something? Read my submitted story and get rid of it if you can. Thanks, Jamie Nicholson
• Lemme guess (Score:1)

  by btilly (5037)

  Your thanks go double for people who actually bought your Perl book? :-)
  • Re:Lemme guess (Score:1)

    by Allison (3003)

    LOL :) Nope. My book is insignificant in terms of market numbers.
• 4 out of 4 (Score:2)

  by jonasbn (1153)

  I actually had all of the 4 titles you mentioned in my last order from Amazon, and AFAIK many of my fellow Perl Mongers are reading titles such as: 'High Order Perl' and 'Perl Best Practices' - looking at the Perl book releases over the last years, the readers might have been starving a bit?
  • Re:4 out of 4 (Score:1)

    by cbrandtbuffalo (4462)

    There may have been a some latent demand. I also think it speaks to the quality of these books. It's sort of like movies--if they're bad, they get a big opening weekend and that's it. Good movies continue to make money over time because of word-of-mouth.

    This new batch of Perl books hit some great sweet spots on the demand side and did so with excellent books. In many cases, people are referring to them as "must haves," especially "Perl Best Practices."
• zeitgeist (Score:2)

  by TeeJay (2309)

  "Perl Programming" is apparently the most popular indoor activity according to Google Zeitgeist [google.com] as mentioned in ask's blog [askbjoernhansen.com]

  --
  
  @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
  print reverse @JAPH;