Monday, April 16, 2012

o'Reilly Media book: Perl Best Practices

  • Perl Best Practices - O'Reilly Media
  • its Appendix B gets provided for the public by the publishing house, it lists all the recipes with brief descriptions [Link]
  • "PBP Module Recommendation Commentary" on Socialtext [Link, actually Perl Foundation links to that via "perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?pbp_module_recommendation_commentary"]; some "yes", "mostly yes", "no", "maybe" regarding the modules recommended in the book; short resp. compact and worth reading resp. good for looking up a module, that you are tempted to use after reading about it in the book, so you have another (useful) opinion
  • a collection of 256 guidelines – find them listed on a refcard here!

  • it got released in 2005 though, and time went on in the meantime!
  • rather nice to read
  • its author also teaches classes in courses by this name, they should be rather up-to-date
From the TOC:
  • Chapter 2: Code Layout: …, Vertical Alignment, …
  • Chapter 7: Documentation (this is the most extensive text on POD, that I know in the Perl literature)

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