Randal Schwartz And Tom Phoenix Interview

O'Reilly has put up an interesting interview with Randal Schwartz and Tom Phoenix, the guys behind the llama book (Learning Perl). In addition to all the perl stuff, Randal gives his take on Smalltalk, Ruby, and Python. And (not surprisingly) they plug the newest edition of the book.

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Re:Hmm...

[merlyn]

the original authors of Learning Perl were Schwartz and Christiansen.

No. I was the sole original author of Learning Perl, and Larry Wall provided a foreword. Tom was originally intended to be merely a reviewer of the second edition, but used his influence to become a co-author of the second edition (and get me moved off the team for the third Camel). I'm not allowed to discuss my feelings publicly on either of those movements. But I'm very happy to have created a Christiansen-free third edition of the llama, which I think stands head-and-shoulders above either of the previous two editions, thanks to a significant contribution from my senior trainer, Tom Phoenix.

Re:Hmm...

[chromatic]

He was an author on the third edition of Programming Perl and spoke at the Perl Conference a couple of weeks ago. Less visibility than normal, yes, but still around.