in reply to Draft of "Extreme Perl" available

Having just read it over the past two days, I found it to be a very approachable explanation of XP practices. Most XP sites I've read are written by fanatics for fanatics, which turns me off. This actually went through the best practices and explained XP very simply.

Personally, I think that this book is a good resource on XP practices in general. The Perl side of it is primarily within the examples, similar to how Design Patterns by the Gang of Four is a book on programming theory that uses C++, Smalltalk, and Java in their examples.

I would strongly recommend this book to everyone, even if only to see how the other side lives.

Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing.
Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid.
Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence.
Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.

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