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

[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.