On 26 Mar 2009, at 11:50, Mark Blackman wrote:
The older answer is something along the lines of "Perl Best
Practice" the O'Reilly
book by D. Conway and ideas behind it. See also http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/07/14/bestpractices.html
.
The newer answer is an emerging buzzword called "Modern Perl" or
sometimes "Enlightened Perl".
Chromatic's blog on the subject, http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/,
is probably the best
starting place for that idea.
On 26 Mar 2009, at 11:51, Rolf Banting wrote:
"The Perl Cookbook" will likely as not point you at the smoother
parts of the road.
"Perl Best Practices" by Damian Conway goes into the "right" way to
do perl-ish things in great depth.
PerlCritic is a perl module inspired by the book that will check
your code against a configured policy set.
A great place to start is the Camel book ("Programming Perl" - Wall
et al) which has sections on style, newbie pitfalls etc
Try "Perl Hacks" for a more sideways glance.
It is a rich, flexible, language that has been around a good while.
In a good few years at this game I have not come across another that
gets you from here to there in so few steps.
Sheesh. Thanks guys but I don't have enough time to digest all that.
;-)
Probably I should just buy the Camel book - but it's a bit long in the
tooth now (perl 5.6, published 2000).
I imagine I'll just throw myself into it at some time and bore the
list with asinine questions.
Simon
