Perl Best Practices. Photocopy Edition

Author: (Australia) Conway
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: Many programmers program by intuition, which comes from their early habits and styles. The programs written this way seem natural, intuitive, and look good. But if you want to take the programmer's profession seriously, intuition is far from enough. Perl Best Practices discusses many programming rules, conventions, development standards, and best practices for the Perl language. These not only help programmers communicate and collaborate but also provide a reliable framework for thinking about problems and a universal language for expressing solutions. Through vivid and humorous expressions, author Damian Conway provides 256 rules about the art of programming for Perl programmers, which can help you write better Perl code. These rules cover code layout and naming conventions, the selection of data and control structures, program decomposition and modularization, the design and implementation of interfaces, object-oriented design, error handling, program testing, and debugging. All the rules in this book are designed to write clear, robust, efficient, maintainable, and concise programs. Dr. Conway does not claim that these rules are the most comprehensive and clearest set of practices, but in fact, this book provides widely recognized and applied suggestions in practice, rather than ivory-tower programming theory. Especially, the rules provided by Perl Best Practices are truly effective and have been widely used by developers around the world. Like the original intention of the Perl language, these rules will make your development even better.