•Re^2: Unwritten Perl Books

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^3: Unwritten Perl Books by rjray (Chaplain) on Jul 13, 2004 at 05:45 UTC
Large Scale Programming in Perl -- "Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules" There's more to large-scale programming than just the smart management of modules and packages. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend the Alpaca book for the areas it covers, but it wouldn't be the only source to use in this particular case. `--rjray`	[reply]
Re^4: Unwritten Perl Books by stvn (Monsignor) on Jul 13, 2004 at 13:59 UTC
There's more to large-scale programming than just the smart management of modules and packages. I agree, and it seems to be to be a hard thing to find good books on. When I was looking around about a year ago, all I was able to find was a lot of research papers online. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend the Alpaca book for the areas it covers, but it wouldn't be the only source to use in this particular case. I am not familiar with the "Alpaca" book, can you elaborate? And any other suggestions you have would be most appreciated. They don't need to be specifically about perl either, I know several other langauges as well, and I am also interested in theory/best-practices/concepts/etc. -stvn	[reply]
Re^5: Unwritten Perl Books by davorg (Chancellor) on Jul 13, 2004 at 14:09 UTC
I am not familiar with the "Alpaca" book, can you elaborate? That's Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules which was mentioned before. -- <http://www.dave.org.uk> "The first rule of Perl club is you do not talk about Perl club." -- Chip Salzenberg	[reply]
Re^5: Unwritten Perl Books by rjray (Chaplain) on Jul 14, 2004 at 00:35 UTC
I am not familiar with the "Alpaca" book, can you elaborate? And any other suggestions you have would be most appreciated. One of the better ones I've read is Large-Scale C++ Software Design, which was recommended by a presenter at one of the OSCONs. His paper was on large-scale software dev in Perl, as well. The book is C++ slanted, but focuses more on concepts than code, making is more generally useful. `--rjray`	[reply]
Re^3: Unwritten Perl Books by stvn (Monsignor) on Jul 12, 2004 at 18:37 UTC
How are these books lacking in what you are looking for? They are not lacking I guess, my bookshelf is lacking :) "Data Munging with Perl" is new to me, I had never seen that one before, but you can bet I will order it ASAP. As for your fine book, I have to admit, I skimmed over it several times, but never looked closely enough to see all that it was about. I suppose maybe I should pick that one up as well, unless of course you have some extra copies lying around you wanna give away :) -stvn	[reply]