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.