Believers in the Perl Faith!


Almost a year ago I offered the materialization of my Perl worshiping in this CUFP posting about Perl code generation with PerlBean.

Two months ago I submitted version 1.0 of PerlBean to CPAN and I rejoice to be able to say that PerlBean works for me (at least.)

Action speaks louder than words so I'll mention two general purpose packages I offered to the public which I developed using PerlBean:

• InfoSys::FreeDB is a FreeDB access library. It is a reimplementation of Net::FreeDB2 which I wrote without using a programming tool like PerlBean. Net::FreeDB2 took me about 9 months (I do GPL stuff in the evenings, after I put my kids to bed), InfoSys::FreeDB took three weeks.
• VLGal::Directory is an HTML photo gallery generator which I wrote in two weeks.

In my previous posting (see link above) I already summarized PerlBean. Most importantly it still saves me a great deal of time when writing Perl code.

I improved on all the points I mentioned and I even found quite a few more areas to improve. See the BUGS section of PerlBean documentation (NOTE: The link at the top seems to be broken).

• Since version 0.6 PerlBean is compliant to man perlstyle.
• Since version 0.3 methods are supported.

You can find the tutorial over here.

Again I hope PerlBean may be useful to other Perl programmers.


Yours,
Vincenzo Zocca
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