PBP

[cdybedahl]

I just finished reading Damian Conway's Perl Best Practices. Which is about exactly what it sounds like, best practices when coding Perl. Or, differently put, a long list of things that can go wrong when you write Perl and how to best avoid them. It's got a lot of valuable information in it, and it's written in an unusually readable manner for a technical text. The main disadvantage I can think of is that now I want to go back and re-write a lot of old code to make it better...

Highly recommended.

Comments

[hawkeye7.livejournal.com]

I'm not accepting all of his suggestions - I'm not changing my indentation style, for example - but he provides good suggestions and just reading the rationale is thought provoking. What I like most is how non-dogmatic he is. He's not sticking with an idea through thick and thin but is willing to discard it when it becomes cumbersome.

[khrister.livejournal.com]

Seconded. I've not finished it yet (I read it at woirk when I get some spare time...so I'm a bit more than halfway through after two months), but what I've read sofar is really good.

Although I won't conform completely to his ideas on indentation, I've already started to use most of it.

Just the tip about perltidy has made my life easier when looking at other peoples code.