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Book:   Perl Best Practices
Subject:   Outstanding book
Date:   2006-11-29 07:18:14
From:   JD Baldwin
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I have my issues with some of the style dicta in this book -- I will NEVER abandon BSD braces or 3-column indentation -- but, as the book notes, even if you disagree, it's healthy to think seriously about your choices. And, modulo my few immutable prejudices, the style advice is uniformly good.


Even if you never adopt a single practice from this book, just reading it will make you a better Perl programmer. The one drawback is that, for those of us consigned to adopt or maintain others' code, it will make us that much more intolerant of the sloppy, haphazard coding practices that are so common in the system administration world.

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