On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Simon Forster <simon-li...@ldml.com> wrote:
> > 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 > Fair enough Simon. I would recommend you look at the Cookbook too - it has recipes for everything from iterating through a hash to web automation. http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/perl/cookbook/ Slan abhaile, Rolf
