Re: Unwritten Perl Books: 2007 version

I would like to see a giant ~3 cd set of working Perl5 example scripts, all catagorized, and commented inline. Sure everything is already out there on Google and various websites, and in certain monk's collections; but it would be nice for beginners to have instant access to all of the working knowledge. (But I guess that would make programming too easy :-) )

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Re^2: Unwritten Perl Books: 2007 version by jhourcle (Prior) on May 17, 2007 at 14:43 UTC
As anonymous mentioned, one of the important things is in making sure that you're getting good examples. (and then there's the issue that what's good for one level of coder might not be good for others) For some examples of code, you can try krugle or Google codesearch (I've been known to search for 'use PackageName' to find examples, even on search engines that aren't code-specific) For the best examples ... I'm not sure what's really 'beginner' quality these days ... for more advanced stuff, you might take a look at the NMS work by london.pm, As it's been produced by a group, I find it has better commenting than many solo projects.	[reply]
Re^2: Unwritten Perl Books: 2007 version by Anonymous Monk on May 17, 2007 at 14:24 UTC
Yeah, there should be some sort of archive that has everything in one place. We could call it the Complete Perl Examples Library. It could have a search engine so people could find things, and a module so people could download everything to their machine. We can even set up a group of people to automatically test everything in ComPEL so we know newbies are getting good stuff. We could set up a site where other people could comment on the examples and rate them, too. That would be really cool. I wish Perl had something like that.	[reply]