The goal of the book is to make you think about how things should be done, not to give you a one-size-fits-all solution. In this respect, it never gets old.
See Perl::Critic::Community for a revised and modernised set of perlcritic rules, created mostly by the IRC subset of the Perl community.
map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]