Effective Perl Programming

Effective Software Development

by Joseph N. Hall, Joshua A. McAdams, Brian D. Foy

The highly-anticipated update to this classic book - now fully reflects today's most powerful idioms and adds nine new chapters!
• Packed with carefully-explained examples that show how to write Perl code like the experts do and why
• New chapters on CPAN, databases, debugging, distributions, external processes, files, production Perl, testing, and Unicode
• Follows Scott Meyers' best-selling Effective C format
• An indispensable resource for every experienced Perl programmer

Table of Content
Introduction 1. The Basics of Perl
2. Idiomatic Perl
3. Regular Expressions
4. Subroutines
5. Files and File handles
6. References
7. CPAN
8. Unicode
9. Distributions
10. Testing
11. Warnings
12. Databases
13. Miscellany Appendix A: Perl Resources
Appendix B: Map from First to Second Edition
Books
Websites
Blogs and Pod casts
Getting Help
Index

Genres: Programming, Computers, Computer Science, Nonfiction, Technology, Reference, Technical

473 pages, Paperback

First published January 9, 1997

Reviews

[Nathan Glenn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is the most awesome resource on Perl I have ever found. I just finished reading it through for the second time; it was a good read when I was a beginner, and it is still a good reader as an advanced programmer.

[Mark A.]

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[Clintweathers · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ultimately, it doesn't matter what scripting language you use.

Perl, Python, R, Javascript, Ruby (ok, maybe not Ruby), whatever.
Having your code be lucid, literate and readable is important no matter what language.

If you work in Perl, this is a great book to help make your code more idiomatic (or, as Perl coders say, "Perlish").

This is one of the two books (along with The Camel) I have at my elbow every time I code in Perl.

[Psoup1965 · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book context was good. As a professional Perl programmer I did find some information useful.

However, I purchased this for my eReader as a quick reference and the code samples are extremely hard to read. I am disappointed in the eReader version of this book.

[Amanda]

A second edition?? The first one was brilliant. Before I've even finished chapter one of the new edition, I've been introduced to the goatse operator... it's the slightly-unhinged quality of the language that gives it that distinct Bukowski flavor.

[Ramesh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helps separate the kiddies and the adults in the Perl world.

[Jon · Rating 5 out of 5]

A simply wonderful perl book. Has some really nice features of 5.10 & 5.12. It's been wonderfully updated and is now on my wishlist.

[Дмитрий Лобанов · Rating 5 out of 5]

Effectiveness is my power

Great book.
From every chapter I take minimum 10 tips and tricks.
Each bad style has fail example in this book.

Thank you, guys, for this book!

[Ajitabh Pandey · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent book about how to write perl programs effectively. A must read for all perl programmers.

[David Sewell · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a fantastic book for advanced perl programmer.