I don't know if I'm a "seasoned" programmer but I've been doing primarily Perl stuff for the past six years or so.

When reading PBP, my reactions roughly broke down like this:

• 80%: That's a good idea. I'm glad I already do it.
• 10%: That's a good idea. I should start doing it.
• 10%: That's the worst idea in the history of human civilization and the author should be locked up in a padded room.

I would say that the middle 10% was the most valuable part of the book, but the first 80% was certainly not worthless. It was good to learn that much more experienced people used a lot of the same habits that I did.

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