I agree. Most normal books are fine, plus/minus the odd OCR problem for older books. Computer books are much harder to OCR, because spellchecking doesn't work. The only thing that can parse Perl is perl...

I think my biggest disappointment for me was the Kindle version of Perl Best Practices. Perl::Critic depends heavily on page numbers which the Kindle version doesn't support. Otherwise this would be a very good, portable reference (the printed PBP is quite heavy, and mine is starting to loose pages because of constant going back-and-forth through the pages).

If Damian is reading this: I would pay good money for a PerlModule version of the book i can just plugin to P::C that shows me the POD version of the full text for any guideline that just popped up in testing.

Sorry for any bad spelling, broken formatting and missing code examples. I broke my left hand and i'm doing the best i can here...

In reply to Re^3: Perl Program Repair Shop and Red Flags book by cavac
in thread Perl Program Repair Shop and Red Flags book by Anonymous Monk

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