On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Jacob Fugal <[email protected]> wrote: > I already knew perl when I got this one, so I don't know how good of a > "learning perl" book it makes, but Perl Best Practices is really good.
I have a friend who used to write Perl while high on LSD. It ran fine, and worked, but when he looked at it later he had no idea how or why. For this and other reasons, I find the idea of Perl having "best practices" to be slightly amusing. (This should be taken as an amusing anecdote and not as an invitation to start a flame war. We all know that Perl has many uses and is wonderful and all that, and that the decisions made while creating it were made for good reasons, even if they do differ from decisions made while creating other languages.) /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
