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Mr P
Is this a person's name?
I just started reading Perl Hacks- a must read in my mind. The tips
and advice are truly inspired. Plus I can use them as AMMO in my
company, since many of these practices I already employ (and I'm
abused by others who don't, claiming they are a waste of time)..
This book begins with
"chromatic works for O'Reilly Media..."...
I puzzled over this line for a long time, thinking perhaps they had a
publishing glitch, and it was really supposed to be some markup text
referring to text chroma attributes, like:
"<chromatic>Wally Schmedly</chromatic> works for O'Reilly Media...".
Then I turned to the cover and it said "chromatic" there also. It
didn't have the word "author" anywhere on the cover, so the word
"chromatic" just sort of hung out there in space with no contextual
meaning except that which might be assumed, like *usually* an author
is on the cover of a book, and since it seems disjointed from the
title, perhaps it's an author's moniker.
It concerned me too that if I spent this long puzzled over line #1, in
the intro, then how could I possibly ever expect to get through the
entire text?
I'm fairly certain that "chromatic" was not a given name for a real
person. It would have made sense, therefore, to perhaps pen this as
something like:
"chromatic [1] works for O'Reilly Media..."...
I just started reading Perl Hacks- a must read in my mind. The tips
and advice are truly inspired. Plus I can use them as AMMO in my
company, since many of these practices I already employ (and I'm
abused by others who don't, claiming they are a waste of time)..
This book begins with
"chromatic works for O'Reilly Media..."...
I puzzled over this line for a long time, thinking perhaps they had a
publishing glitch, and it was really supposed to be some markup text
referring to text chroma attributes, like:
"<chromatic>Wally Schmedly</chromatic> works for O'Reilly Media...".
Then I turned to the cover and it said "chromatic" there also. It
didn't have the word "author" anywhere on the cover, so the word
"chromatic" just sort of hung out there in space with no contextual
meaning except that which might be assumed, like *usually* an author
is on the cover of a book, and since it seems disjointed from the
title, perhaps it's an author's moniker.
It concerned me too that if I spent this long puzzled over line #1, in
the intro, then how could I possibly ever expect to get through the
entire text?
I'm fairly certain that "chromatic" was not a given name for a real
person. It would have made sense, therefore, to perhaps pen this as
something like:
"chromatic [1] works for O'Reilly Media..."...
