I'm currently reading "Advanced Perl Programming" and I found the chapters about modules and OOP rather interesting.

I'd like to find out more and learn more about how modules work, how they can be implemented aso, and I thought I'd use the old free software motto: "Use the source, Luke!", and just look at the modules sources to see how their authors did it (the nice thing is that the modules user interface is explained good almost everytime in its perldoc).

There are many modules delivered with Perl itself and there are hundreds of other "good" modules in CPAN, the problem is that the popular modules like CGI or DBI are pretty big and too complex for a beginner like me, and I just can't figure out what module would be good to start with.

So, my question is: what modules would you recommend a beginner to take a look at? Or another question: would you recommend this approach of "learning by sourcing" at all?

(So to say: "Usually, all documentation files end up in .pm.")

In reply to Module Recommendation by le

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