[Gllug] Recommended Books

[Rich Walker]

Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> writes:

> On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Greg McCarroll gibbered uncontrollably:
>> 	3) Object Orientated Perl - It spells out how to write good OO code  in Perl so
>> 	   hopefully your Perl programs won't become 10,000 lines of spaghetti.
>> 	   (No language wars please ;-) ).
>
> Myself I'm probably going to get Mark-Jason Dominus's _Higher-Order
> Perl_, if just to boggle at the idea of trying to write programs in
> functional style in Perl :)
>
> (It's online as well, but I tend to like these things in real paper
> form.)
>
>> Security,
>> 	1) Applied Cryptography - another definitive text.
>
> Yes! If you have to do anything with crypto at work, get _Secrets &
> Lies_ as well to beat your bosses over the head with. The consequences

I like the comment near the beginning of Secrets and Lies, to the
effect of

"my other book about crypto covers the maths. It is irrelevant. The
maths is not your problem".

Secrets and Lies is like Alice in Wonderland for crypto people.

cheers, Rich.

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