in reply to I have been away from perl for a long time. Need suggestions for getting back in the game!
Some Perl 6 features are available today in Perl 5.10. Familiarising yourself with the new Perl 5.10 features should prove enjoyable:
- The Year in Perl, 2007
- Re: Why should I use perl 5.10?
- Perl 5.10 slide show by Perl 5.10 Pumpking Rafael
- Slide show: What is new in Perl 5.10?
- Perl 5.10 regexes
- Perl Training Australia Talks
- Four micro articles on new Perl 5.10 features
- A Beginner's Introduction to Perl 5.10
- Beginner's Introduction to Perl 5.10, Part 2
The CPAN has come a long way in the past five years, with many new supporting web sites springing up -- see, for example, the "Other supporting websites" section in the CPAN Wikipedia entry.
The Perl QA and Testing community has made great advances in the past five years. Noteworthy here are the fanatical CPAN Testers, the envy of every other programming language; and the improvements currently underway to the Test Anything Protocol (TAP). Some links:
- Perl QA Wiki
- Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook
- CPAN Testers
- CPAN Testers Statistics
- CPAN Dependencies
- CPAN Testing Service
- The CPAN Testers Wiki (thanks bingos)
Finally, since you mentioned the fun side of Perl, I wrote an overview of the lighter side of Perl culture, which may be of interest.
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Re^2: I have been away from perl for a long time. Need suggestions for getting back in the game!
by bingos (Vicar) on May 20, 2008 at 08:29 UTC |