[SLUG] Mirror of Search.cpan.org

[Terry Collins <terryc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:

> > I will try looking for perl stuff at freshmeat and search.cpan.org (if
> > they are both working).
> 
> Reading other code is the best way to work out wtf is going on, second only
> to actually writing something yourself... Which you're doing already.

Does anyone know of a mirror for search.cpan.org?
Unfortunately search.cpan.org has joined the great crowd of stuff that
never finishes downloading.
The aarnet mirror doesn't have the same stuff.

> 
> > Sigh, this is another case of O'Reilly books being only for those who
> > already know what they are doing. I spoke to Tim O'Reilly about this
> > about seven years ago, over the Awk book, but it seems he hasn't taken
> > it on board.
> 
> O'Reilly books are not generally at the 'tutorial' level. Some are, but most
> are aimed as references, especially for people with familiarity in other
> similar areas. The best way of getting up to speed with an unfamiliar new
> Free Software technology (if books are your thing), is to grab an O'Reilly
> tome.

Actually, I think your sentences here contradict each other. I'll agree
that O'Reilly books, generally, are okay for reference books, but I
don't think they are necessarily the best way of getting up to speed if
that involves learning something.

And the best books to learn Perl are?

Actually, I don't want to learn Perl, I want to interface my MySQL
database to WWW pages and the only book I have is the O'Reilly Mysql &
Msql, which uses Perl & C examples.



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