Re: Perl Best Practices for Everyone!

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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Re^2: Perl Best Practices for Everyone! by Tanktalus (Canon) on Nov 09, 2006 at 21:29 UTC
Actually, after having attended one of that author's talks, and reading some of his modules, I'm not entirely unconvinced about the "should be locked up in a padded room" part myself, and I haven't even read PBP yet ;-)	[reply]
Re^2: Perl Best Practices for Everyone! by tinita (Parson) on Nov 10, 2006 at 12:44 UTC
i have been programming Perl for about 7 years now. When reading PBP, my reactions roughly broke down like this: ... same with me, actually. and i guess, most experienced Perl programmers thought so. but this seems logical, since the book is a collection of best practices from many different programmers.	[reply]