[Mastering-perl] Some Suggestions for Topics

[Bob goolsby]

A serious walk through the debugger.  Yes you can do a lot with the
appropriate placement of a print(), but there are times and places
where a hands-on debugging session identifies the problem faster than
anything else.

A discussion of the sem___ and shm___ functions.  If you don't already
know about System V IPC, these are semi-magical and more than slightly
confusing.  A discussion of the problem they are designed to solve and
the caveats and pit-falls there in.

Ditto for Threads.

A discussion of Socket programming and the associated CPAN modules. 
Why you want to think about using sockets to talk to your (forked)
children rather than a pipe().  Or do you?

And a somewhat more general question: Where does "Intermediate Perl"
really fit in the Camel, Llama, Alpaca, Panther pantheon?  (And, "is
IP really POR&M, second edition?"  If so, why change the name?  If
not, we need another camelid).


Bob G