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> I thought I wrote good Perl code until I read the Perl core modules. Like night and day. For some reason the 2nd and subsequent editions of the O'Reilly Perl
by gopher_space 4y ago
> I thought I wrote good Perl code until I read the Perl core modules. Like night and day.
For some reason the 2nd and subsequent editions of the O'Reilly Perl book completely altered the layout and presentation that Larry Wall had set up. The first edition of Programming Perl is the most *lucid* programming book I've ever read.