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What's the title of Jared's book?
-Scott
At 05:03 AM 1/28/03 -0800, you wrote:
>I used to be, but I finally bit the bullet ... I ordered my copy of
>Jared's book from Amazon.com yesterday !!
>
>Raj
>______________________________________________________
>Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc.
>Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com
>Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN Inc.
>QOTD: Any clod can have facts, but having an opinion is an art!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Freeman
>[<mailto:robertgfreeman_at_yahoo.com>mailto:robertgfreeman_at_yahoo.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 1:40 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>Subject: Perl - Was Unix time conversion function
>
>Cary.... I once thought I wanted to do some Perl coding... So I bought a
>book and started to play with it. It made my head bleed... literally I had
>little droplets of blood emerging from my head.... They rushed me to the
>hospital and put me in the Perl ward where I languished for days on IV's
>of Mountain Dew and pulverized Ritz crackers..... it was close.
>
>In my mind there is nothing obvious about Perl, this coming from and old C
>coder who did pointers and linked lists in his sleep years ago. I don't
>know, maybe I was having a bad day and it's time to get my "learning Perl"
>book out again....
>
>Anyone else feel that way about Perl or am I a lone wolf in a Perl world?
>
>RF
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