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Modern Perl: The Book: The Draft
- lucraft 16y agoModern Perl: The Book: The Draft: The Comment
- telemachos 16y agoSidenote, but this is why I prefer a pipe or dash to mark off my site title from the title of any particular post. If you use a colon, you run into this problem all the time. I also prefer to put the name of the specific page before the site-name. It gives more information in tabs that way (you see what page you are actually on, not just the site's name over and over and over, if you have multiple tabs).
- chromatic 16y agoI did that on purpose. I'm easy to amuse.
- lucraft 16y agoI like it :)
- acqw 16y agoWhich Perl is this about: 5 or 6? They are practically not the same languages, so it's confusing. Maybe you just expect that 5 can't be modern in any sense?
- telemachos 16y agoIt's about Perl 5. The idea is that Perl 5 (as a whole) is quite old - ancient in internet terms. Much of what you find online as Perl tutorials or introductions is hideous advice from the point of view of today's Perl idioms and possibilities. (A few random things: nearly every Perl tutorial you find is still using bareword, two-argument calls to open. Argh. Also, no Moose, no autodie, no Perlbrew, no Try::Tiny, no cpanminus and on and on and on.) Hence, a need for a "modern" introduction to contemporary Perl programming. If you're curious about the project and the author's view more generally, you might be interested in his introductory blog post "Why 'Modern Perl' Anyway?" (it's linked in the Github repo): http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2009/01/why-modern-perl.html http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2009/01/why-modern-perl.ht...
- draegtun 16y agoHere is the initial announcement of the idea for doing this perl5 book: http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/38303 http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/38303
- pasbesoin 16y agoAnd here's my belated response, "Yes, I'll buy a copy". (Thanks for writing it.)
- chromatic 16y agoMaybe you just expect that 5 can't be modern in any sense? That's the subversive part of the title. I believe that Perl 5 code written well--written with the full power of CPAN and features of recent releases and all of the community wisdom developed in the past several years--is as good or better than code written in almost any other language. I also believe that it's reasonably easy to teach a Perl 5 novice how to write code well.