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UnixReview.com
October 2005
Book Review: Perl Best Practices
Reviewed by Reinhard Voglmaier
Perl Best Practices
Damian Conway
O'Reilly & Associates, 2005
ISBN: 0596001738
542 pages
The Perl programming language stands for absolute liberty to the programmer.
This means there are no two Perl programmers who would write the same software
in the same way. You can write ýobject orientedý programs in Perl if you want.
Or you can write in a procedural way or use a constraint-based approach. Even
if you choose the object-oriented method, you have many choices on how to implement
objects. You can implement objects as anonymous hashes, like the majority of
object-oriented Perl programmers, or you can use anonymous scalars, as Damian
Conway shows in this book, and so on.
The CPAN Web site of Perl
offers a huge number of libraries extending the basic language, which can help
you solve problems in every field imaginable. But there are at least two libraries
resolving the same issue in different ways, with different philosophies. Standardization
is not supported by the Perl language itself, so discipline and effort are required
to achieve consistency of Perl programs within an organization. This book can
help you set up standards to improve readability and reusability of software
developed with Perl.
About the book
In this new book, Damian Conway (also the author of  |
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