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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report
about I/O disciplines and I should retire to the Tassili-in-Aijer
mountains in Sahara as a camel herder :-)
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What I think of PBP (Score:1)
I laughed, cried, fell down, my life was changed. Well, maybe I didn't cry so much ;-).
Seriously though, best perl book since I first picked up the Camel. Any project that uses PBP as a guideline is doing at least one thing right.
In a way it's a shame this came out in this form though. I'd imagine that a guide to perl best practices could best be implemented in a wiki, with arguments for and against certain practices as well as updates and additions from the community. The book would be a perfect baseline to start off from, but somehow I can't see O'Reilly/TheDamian looking too favourably on someone who'd copy the entire book into a wiki ;-).
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Re:What I think of PBP (Score:2)
PBP (any "best practices" in general) works best when it comes from a single voice. Damian synthesized a lot of experience when he condensed it into a dead tree. So this isn't one lone kook's guide to what makes for good Perl, but a coherent guide to what some of th