Perl Self-Study

[Janina Sajka]

No argument there. Still, in the sceme of things where a hardbound book is 
now often $30, I don't find the cost that prohibitive. But, I do take your 
point. If you don't have it, don't squander. Instead, encourage your 
public library to get it for you! <grin>

 On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Watson, Keith 
wrote:

> Seems a little expensive to me. Minimum $120 bucks a year for something that
> I can't download to my local system. Looks good for those who can get their
> companies to foot the bill, but for those of use on fixed incomes, ASCII
> still looks good. Besides, as I was so pointable reminded the other day,
> Grep is your friend. While we're on the subject that is.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Janina Sajka [mailto:janina at afb.net]
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 12:02 PM
> To: 'speakup at braille.uwo.ca'
> Subject: RE: Perl Self-Study
> 
> 
> Keith, thanks for reminding us of O'Reilly's excellent support for blind 
> readers 
> of their books. They really are exemplary.
> 
> Since we're on the subject, let me just add a little of my opinion re the 
> relative merits of what we can get from O'Reilly.
> 
> ASCII is the old reliable that we've known and used for years. It has its 
> limitations, of course, and I am sure I needn't belabor them here.
> 
> I consider HTML the next step up from ASCII because hyperlinks are 
> valuable, and HTML files usually support navigation much better--movement 
> from chapter to chapter, etc.
> 
> The O'Reilly Safari service goes one better still, and I think it's worth 
> exploring for that reason. Not only can you get the contents of books up 
> on screen right away, you can also search, using Boulian operators across 
> several titles and have the service autogenerate a special presentation 
> based on the hits you get.  I think this is a step beyond that could be 
> very helpful--especially since it seems to be fully accessible.
> 
> On top of it all, O'Reilly is stepping out and offering this service 
> without gobs of encryption and all kinds of restrictions technical and 
> social--like some other publishers we know of. That's exemploray too, in 
> my view, and it deserves notice and praise. And, it sure gets my support. 
> Actually makes me feel good about spending a little cash with O'Reilly.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Watson, Keith wrote:
> 
> > Janina, (and Amanda, and all)
> > 
> > Some of you are aware of this, some of you are not. O'Reilly has a program
> > called "Books for the Blind". They offer any of their publications to us
> in
> > text format. All you have to do is provide a doctors note certifying that
> > you are visually impared/blind and they will provide you any book you want
> > via ftp. For more information contact:
> > 
> > Lenny Mueliner
> > 617-499-7440
> > len at oreilly.com (may have changed to len at ora.com, not sure)
> > 
> > Keith
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Janina Sajka [mailto:janina at afb.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 9:55 PM
> > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > Subject: Re: Perl Self-Study
> > 
> > 
> > Hi, Amanda:
> > 
> > Get the Perl books from O'Reilly. They're perfect and you can get them on 
> > CD ROM in html files from 
> > 
> > 	http://linux.oreilly.com
> > 
> > You might also want to try the O'Reilly Safari service. It's a monthly 
> > subscription service where you get to keep up to a set number of books 
> > available for a particular fee. So much money for 5 books, so much for 10 
> > books, etc. And, you get to change your list of books every month. Very 
> > cool. Check this out at:
> > 
> > 	http://safari.oreilly.com
> > 
> >  On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Amanda Lee wrote:
> > 
> > > On the subject of Perl, if anyone has recommendations of soft
> > > copy/electronic (etext) resources for teaching oneslf Perl and/or
> > > Cornshell, please write me off list.
> > > 
> > > Thanks!  -  Amanda Lee
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

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