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0.7. Acknowledgments for the First Edition
This book wouldn't exist but for a legion of people standing, knowing
and unknowing, behind the authors. At the head of this legion would
have to be our editor, Linda Mui, carrot on a stick in one hand and a
hot poker in the other. She was great.As the author of Perl, Larry Wall was our ultimate reality check. He
made sure we weren't documenting things he was planning to change and
helped out on wording and style.[2] If now and then you think you're
hearing Larry's voice in this book, you probably are.[2]And
footnotes.Larry's wife, Gloria, a literary critic by trade, shocked us by
reading through every single word—and actually liking most of
them. Together with Sharon Hopkins, resident Perl Poetess, she helped
us rein in our admittedly nearly insatiable tendency to produce
pretty prose sentences that could only be charitably described as
lying somewhere between the inscrutably complex and the hopelessly
arcane, eventually rendering the meandering muddle into something
legible even to those whose native tongues were neither PDP-11
assembler nor Mediæval Spanish.Our three most assiduous reviewers, Mark-Jason Dominus, Jon Orwant,
and Abigail, have worked with us on this book nearly as long as we've
been writing it. Their rigorous standards, fearsome intellects, and
practical experience in Perl applications have been of invaluable
assistance. Doug Edwards methodically stress-tested every piece of
code from the first seven chapters of the book, finding subtle border
cases no one else ever thought about. Other major reviewers include
Andy Dougherty, Andy Oram, Brent Halsey, Bryan Buus, Gisle Aas,
Graham Barr, Jeff Haemer, Jeffrey Friedl, Lincoln Stein, Mark Mielke,
Martin Brech, Matthias Neeracher, Mike Stok, Nate Patwardhan, Paul
Grassie, Peter Prymmer, Raphaël Manfredi, and Rod Whitby.And this is just the beginning. Part of what makes Perl fun is the
sense of community and sharing it seems to engender. Many selfless
individuals lent us their technical expertise. Some read through
complete chapters in formal review. Others provided insightful
answers to brief technical questions when we were stuck on something
outside our own domain. A few even sent us code. Here's a partial
list of these helpful people: Aaron Harsh, Ali Rayl, Alligator
Descartes, Andrew Hume, Andrew Strebkov, Andy Wardley, Ashton
MacAndrews, Ben Gertzfield, Benjamin Holzman, Brad Hughes, Chaim
Frenkel, Charles Bailey, Chris Nandor, Clinton Wong, Dan Klein, Dan
Sugalski, Daniel Grisinger, Dennis Taylor, Doug MacEachern, Douglas
Davenport, Drew Eckhardt, Dylan Northrup, Eric Eisenhart, Eric Watt
Forste, Greg Bacon, Gurusamy Sarathy, Henry Spencer, Jason Ornstein,
Jason Stewart, Joel Noble, Jonathan Cohen, Jonathan Scott Duff, Josh
Purinton, Julian Anderson, Keith Winstein, Ken Lunde, Kirby Hughes,
Larry Rosler, Les Peters, Mark Hess, Mark James, Martin Brech, Mary
Koutsky, Michael Parker, Nick Ing-Simmons, Paul Marquess, Peter
Collinson, Peter Osel, Phil Beauchamp, Piers Cawley, Randal Schwartz,
Rich Rauenzahn, Richard Allan, Rocco Caputo, Roderick Schertler,
Roland Walker, Ronan Waide, Stephen Lidie, Steven Owens, Sullivan
Beck, Tim Bunce, Todd Miller, Troy Denkinger, and Willy Grimm.And let's not forget Perl itself, without which this book could never
have been written. Appropriately enough, we used Perl to build
endless small tools to help produce this book. Perl tools converted
our text in pod format into troff for displaying
and review and into FrameMaker for production. Another Perl program
ran syntax checks on every piece of code in the book. The Tk
extension to Perl was used to build a graphical tool to shuffle
around recipes using drag-and-drop. Beyond these, we also built
innumerable smaller tools for tasks like checking RCS locks, finding
duplicate words, detecting certain kinds of grammatical errors,
managing mail folders with feedback from reviewers, creating program
indices and tables of contents, and running text searches that
crossed line boundaries or were restricted to certain
sections—just to name a few. Some of these tools found their
way into the same book they were used on.
0.7.1. Tom
Thanks first of all to Larry and Gloria for sacrificing some of their
European vacation to groom the many nits out of this manuscript, and
to my other friends and family—Bryan, Sharon, Brent, Todd, and
Drew—for putting up with me over the last couple of years and
being subjected to incessant proofreadings.I'd like to thank Nathan for holding up despite the stress of his
weekly drives, my piquant vegetarian cooking and wit, and his getting
stuck researching the topics I so diligently avoided.I'd like to thank those largely unsung titans in our
field—Dennis, Linus, Kirk, Eric, and Rich—who were all
willing to take the time to answer my niggling operating system and
troff questions. Their wonderful advice and
anecdotes aside, without their tremendous work in the field, this
book could never have been written.Thanks also to my instructors who sacrificed themselves to travel to
perilous places like New Jersey to teach Perl in my stead. I'd like
to thank Tim O'Reilly and Frank Willison first for being talked into
publishing this book, and second for letting time-to-market take a
back seat to time-to-quality. Thanks also to Linda, our shamelessly
honest editor, for shepherding dangerously rabid sheep through the
eye of a release needle.Most of all, I want to thank my mother, Mary, for tearing herself
away from her work in prairie restoration and teaching high school
computer and biological sciences to keep both my business and
domestic life in smooth working order long enough for me to research
and write this book.Finally, I'd like to thank Johann Sebastian Bach, who was for me a
boundless font of perspective, poise, and inspiration—a therapy
both mental and physical. I am certain that forevermore the Cookbook
will evoke for me the sounds of BWV 849, now indelibly etched into
the wetware of head and hand.
0.7.2. Nat
Without my family's love and patience, I'd be baiting hooks in a
10-foot swell instead of mowing my lawn in suburban America. Thank
you! My friends have taught me much: Jules, Amy, Raj, Mike, Kef, Sai,
Robert, Ewan, Pondy, Mark, and Andy. I owe a debt of gratitude to the
denizens of Nerdsholm, who gave sound technical advice and introduced
me to my wife (they didn't give me sound technical advice on her,
though). Thanks also to my employer, Front Range Internet, for a day
job I don't want to quit.Tom was a great co-author. Without him, this book would be nasty,
brutish, and short. Finally, I have to thank Jenine. We'd been
married a year when I accepted the offer to write, and we've barely
seen each other since then. Nobody will savour the final full-stop in
this sentence more than she.
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