From: "Uri Guttman" <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 13:29:36 -0400
. . . too many [web tutorials] suffer from coding in a vacuum
syndrome where they learn and use perl in isolation and never get
peer review. few if any of those 'authors' are active in any perl
community, have modules on cpan, etc. this isn't a joke, it is a sad
thing. not that i am against perl tutorials, just that almost all of
them are so bad.
uri
I would like to second this sentiment generally: It is better to learn
Perl from people who are part of the Perl community. I've been using
Perl mostly full-time for 16 years now, but the first half of it was
without any real connection to the wider Perl community. During that
time, I didn't even use CPAN, so my exposure to other people's Perl code
was limited to the few Perl coders in the lab where I worked. We did
learn from each other, but since our perspectives were limited, we
didn't learn as much as we could have. And since getting connected to
Boston.PM and starting to study and use CPAN modules, my Perl style has
improved noticeably, I think. Writing your own code is essential, but
reading others' code is also important, and getting feedback is even
better.
Along those lines, you might consider picking up "Perl Best
Practices" [1] as perhaps your third Perl book. It won't teach you to
program, but it will give you ideas for how to make your Perl programs
clearer and easier to read -- for you and for others who may need to
change them down the road.
-- Bob Rogers
http://www.rgrjr.com/
[1] http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596001735
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