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>How did I come to write a scripting book? It's a strange
tale. It seems that a few years back I needed to learn
shell scripting -- and what better way to do that than to read a
good book on the subject? I was looking to buy a tutorial and
reference covering all aspects of the subject. I was looking for a
book that would take difficult concepts, turn them inside out, and
explain them in excruciating detail, with well-commented examples.
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I'd have to write it. And so, here we are, folks.</P
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>That reminds me of the apocryphal story about a mad
professor. Crazy as a loon, the fellow was. At the sight of a
book, any book -- at the library, at a bookstore, anywhere --
he would become totally obsessed with the idea that he could have
written it, should have written it -- and done a better job of it
to boot. He would thereupon rush home and proceed to do just that,
write a book with the very same title. When he died some years
later, he allegedly had several thousand books to his credit,
probably putting even Asimov to shame. The books might not have
been any good, who knows, but does that really matter? Here's
a fellow who lived his dream, even if he was obsessed by it,
driven by it . . . and somehow I can't help admiring the old
coot.</P
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with slow learners, eccentrics, odd ducks, fools and
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