I've been browsing through the monastery using Random Node. I keep coming across references to Perl::Critic. I downloaded it and ran it against some of my perl code.
Perl::Critic seems to base most if its policies on recommendations from Perl Best Practices. I was intrigued as to the rationale behind many of the policies. There is some documentation within the policy files themselves but I thought it might be useful to have the book. I searched for the book and found it was written in 2005 and hasn't been updated.
How relevant is this book 20 years later? The current version at the time of publication was 5.8. Perl has seen many changes over the last 20 years. Do the book's recommendations still apply? Is there much that's outdated due to new features in the language?
I'll probably buy the book anyway since it does appear to contain a lot of wisdom. I'm just curious how much material would need rewriting if a new edition were to be published today based on perl 5.40.
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In reply to Perl Best Practices -- 20 years later by pfaut
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