Re: Perl free e-books

Yes, it is just what I want to read the hard copies of books, so I should
buy the books from bookstore, however, I am in China, I cannot find any good
book about Perl, whatever is from bookstore or online shop. Frankly
speaking, Perl is not very popular and welcomed by programmers in China, all
books in bookstore's shelves are about C++, Java, VB.net etc--- no good
books are available to see. If you don't believe it, you can come to China
to see what happens to Perl here?
So I need your help to get online free book which owns PDF format, and then
print it book.

Regards,
Shuo

"John Bokma" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Shuo Shi" <moya0901@xxxxxxx> wrote:

John,It is very nice of you! I am moving by your kindness.

And I am, sadly, moved by your ignorance.

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However, I
tried to look through the material from your below link, it is still
not pdf format, and the pdf book which you refer to is not real what I
want,

It's clear that you want a professional book in PDF format. There are a
few free, but I guess that the one you want is a book that you have to pay
for. Like I wrote earlier on, then pay for it, or borrow it. By paying you
indirectly support the Perl community. By downloading it you don't.

If you are not able to find a pdf file other then by begging in a Perl
group I don't have much hope for your programming capabilities.

IMO a part of programming involves ethics. And while I think it's not a
problem to glimpse over a downloaded pirated book once in a while, like I
think (note the I) to listen to downloaded music in a while isn't going to
kill the music industry.

But I also do think that buying a book (or CDs / DVDs) is a good thing.
And if more ebooks become available without weird limiting protection
schemes I am sure to buy those instead of the paper version if the price
is right. People who pirate somehow make publishers willing to do so panic
here and there. While this might not be justified, I mean, pirated books
do happen. And protection is pissing customers off, while pirates already
have the unprotected version in a torrent or two.

Buying books might make this happen:
http://www.apress.com/free/index.html


As for Perl, there is plenty of /good/ and /free/ material out there. The
non-free material is often written by professionals that have been
supporting the Perl community for years. Show some respect, sooner then
you expect it will be paying back.

--
John Experienced Perl programmer: http://castleamber.com/

Perl help, tutorials, and examples: http://johnbokma.com/perl/


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