I'll restate that cookbooks in general is a bad idea. If something is so complicated to do that you need a recipie, you either should introduce a language construct or make a module.

/ Martin Nilsson (saturator)

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2003-12-22 13:37: Subject: Re: More conference items: book and mailing list

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A book is a great idea, two would be even better. Let me explain ... It would be nice if the first book is a guide to pike and a programmers cookbook, the second book should be for advanced topics [...]

Well, we could indeed be working on two books. :-) I, too, think a cookbook style Pike book would be good. As a matter of fact, we have already started a tiny bit on that project; it's in a stray repository at the pike site in /pike/data/cvsroot/projects/cookbook/ -- borrowing ideas from the "cookbook" series, and Python cookbook in particular.

Uwe Assmann also liked the idea about Pike books (and especially so the cookbook style one), so we officially have all the backing we want and need from IDA. :-)

/ Johan Sundström (achtung xmas!)