SPUG: The ABC-s of Perl

Matt Tucker tuck at whistlingfish.net
Mon Feb 5 13:43:48 CST 2001


D) Dynamic
E) eval
F) Format
L) Loose typing
M) Map
P) Pod
Q) Quick (to write)
R) regexp & references
S) split or slurping (undef $/)
W) wantarray

One of my pet peeves is new Perl developers who write like they're
writing C (yes, yes, TMTOWDI and all that, but there's no need to pass
in references to empty structures you want filled when Perl can just
pass back a list of references). Please consider stressing how Perl
lets you do all kinds of things you just can't do in C.


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