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Perl Best Practices
Damian Conway
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Description for Perl Best Practices
Paperback. Offering a collection of 256 guidelines on the art of coding to help you write better Perl code, this book covers code layout, naming conventions, choice of data and control structures, program decomposition, interface design and implementation, modularity, object orientation, error handling, testing, and debugging. Num Pages: 544 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: UMW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 182 x 31. Weight in Grams: 864.
Many programmers code by instinct, relying on convenient habits or a "style" they picked up early on. They aren't conscious of all the choices they make, like how they format their source, the names they use for variables, or the kinds of loops they use. They're focused entirely on problems they're solving, solutions they're creating, and algorithms they're implementing. So they write code in the way that seems natural, that happens intuitively, and that feels good. But if you're serious about your profession, intuition isn't enough. Perl Best Practices author Damian Conway explains that rules, conventions, standards, and practices not ... Read more
Many programmers code by instinct, relying on convenient habits or a "style" they picked up early on. They aren't conscious of all the choices they make, like how they format their source, the names they use for variables, or the kinds of loops they use. They're focused entirely on problems they're solving, solutions they're creating, and algorithms they're implementing. So they write code in the way that seems natural, that happens intuitively, and that feels good. But if you're serious about your profession, intuition isn't enough. Perl Best Practices author Damian Conway explains that rules, conventions, standards, and practices not ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
O´Reilly Media United States
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
Sebastopol, United States
ISBN
9780596001735
SKU
V9780596001735
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About Damian Conway
Dr. Damian Conway is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and Software Engineering at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), where he teaches object-oriented software engineering. He is an effective teacher, an accomplished writer, and the author of several popular Perl modules. He is also a semi-regular contributor to the Perl Journal. In 1998 he was the winner of the Larry Wall ... Read more
Reviews for Perl Best Practices
"If you are looking for a book to teach you how to program Perl, this is definitely not what you need. Also, if you are cranking out quick Perl scripts to solve one-time tasks, it might not be worth the effort to read this book. However, if you are fairly comfortable with the language and are looking for ways to ... Read more