[albany-pm] New Programming Perl book (4th ed.)

Conor Todd conor.k.todd at gmail.com
Fri Feb 24 08:12:36 PST 2012


Hi everyone,

I'm new, so I'll introduce myself.  I'm a developer who started off writing embedded C and has ended up writing a lot of Perl and doing systems stuff.  I'm currently trying to learn the web end of Perl, and it's exciting.  Also, I have yet to receive any traffic on this list, so I haven't a clue if anyone's listening.

I just picked up the most recent edition of Programming Perl, and I was hoping that it would cover Perl from a modern, object-oriented standpoint, but it seems to stick doggedly to the fundamentals of the language, making it seem rather boring -- as if Perl is a Unix tool that fell out of the way-back machine and has had an object system bolted onto it, and as if Perl writers don't like OO coding practices.  Neither of these could be further from the truth.  I wish that the cover and the preface of the book could have done a better job of setting up Perl as a modern, useful language that wants nothing more than to get out of your way and let you do what you want using whatever practices and idioms you want, for better or worse.

I guess I ought to pick up a copy of Modern Perl.

    - Conor


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