[kw-pm] "programming perl (3rd ed)" still relevant?

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Perl 5.10 did add a number of language features, this is the 
canonical resource: 
http://search.cpan.org/~dapm/perl-5.10.1/pod/perl5100delta.pod

But I would say that PP3e is sufficiently up to date.  There is 
nothing in there that would cause you to write obsolete code. 
Read that and scan the modern deltas, and you are fine.

The 'modern perl' advocates might say that the big piece that you 
are missing in PP3e isn't language intrinsics, but in things like 
Moose and things of that elk.  See 
http://www.modernperlbooks.com/ and you can make up your own 
mind.

---- original message : 2010-01-12 10:20am : Robert P. J. Day ----

>
>  how out of date (if at all) is the 2000 3rd ed of "programming perl"
> with respect to perl 5.10 (the version that comes with fedora 12)?
> have there been any fundamental changes to the language that would
> make this book less than useful or misleading?  or is it still
> sufficiently up to date?
>
> rday
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