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

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