Perl Best Practices

Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules

Perl Cookbook, Second Edition

Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs

Perl Books

Object Oriented Perl : A Comprehensive Guide to Concepts and Programming Techniques

Format: Paperback
Author: Damian Conway
ReleaseDate: 01 January, 2000
Publisher: Manning Publications
Rating:

The first useful documentation on Perl OOP


When I first read it, I was very upset that 3 pages in particular had not simply been inserted into the original Camel book, which I think is one of the most important yet most poorly written programming books ever. This is my favorite Perl book, alongside Advanced Perl Programming.

I wish Damien Conway had written Camel and Llama.
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A Must-read Advanced Perl Book, the title is misleading
I'm comfortable (if slightly annoyed) writing OO Perl code. I almost passed this book by, thinking it was a primer into the OO world with Perl. What surprised about Conways text was that the book used OO as a premise to instruct the reader on more advanced aspects of Perl; its more an Advanced Perl book than the expected Object Oriented book.

I learned more depth of Perl than I have in years. Perl is a thick and crafty language. Chapter 2, subtitled "A Perl Refresher", was worth the price of admission alone, as he deftly re-hashed Perl features he would use later in the book. The practices and features of Perl he later expanded on in the OO chapters incontinued to impress me.

If you are a Perl programmer, beginner to advanced, this is a must-read book, and a great source of coding inpiration. It made me a better programmer, in Perl and other languages.

This book is was published in 2000, and usually the half-life of most computer texts don't hold up 5 years, but this book certainly does! Also, I just noticed Conway just published "Perl Best Practices" which I am eager to tackle. .

Great Book. Highly recommended.
What seems like easy flow as far as the reader is concerned was probably a lot of hard work on his part. Hi:

The author has a very methodical way of introducing concepts and overall has done a very good job.

The wry humor in the book alone is worth the money.

I am still unable to take the plethora of my perl scripts and modularize them but that is not the author's fault.

Compare this book with " Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules By Randal L. Schwartz". This does a much better exposition.

thanks

Sidhaartha.