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

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