Advanced Perl Programming, episode II
- From: Mladen Gogala <gogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 08:02:54 +0000
Well, I finally had some time to read through the electronic version
of the book, and I am impressed with the effort invested and that I
read through the second chapter (Parsing Techniques) with great dose
of interest, given that I used to use lex and yacc and flex and bison.
Combining those methods with perl already advanced regular expression
processing can give really interesting results.
Template modules are also interesting. I have yet to find a use for them,
but it will come with practice.
There is one thing that I dislike: approach to databases. I am posting on this
group for a very long time and I have a fairly detailed knowledge of one
particular
database and some level of knowledge of another one (PostgresSQL). This chapter
I
find to be much more of philosophical value then real value. The DBI book by
Tim
Bunce and Alligator Descartes is still unbeatable. Sure, they talk about
object databases
and various abstract topics but there is no real value for a database
practitioner
in that part.
Overall impression is very good. It doesn't cover the same topics as
Srinivasan's book
but is very good and useful book with larger portion of the book being actually
useful
then was the case with Srinivasan's book. The style is less dry and slightly
better then
Srinivasan's, at least in my opinion. That might not be worth very much, given
the fact
that my accent is visible from my writing, or so I am told. Be it as it may, I
like the
book. I like it a lot.
--
Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
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