Re: Unwritten Perl Books

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•Re^2: Unwritten Perl Books by merlyn (Sage) on Jul 12, 2004 at 18:24 UTC
How are these books lacking in what you are looking for? Perl Parsing Techniques -- "Data Munging with Perl" by David Cross. Large Scale Programming in Perl -- "Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules" by yours truly. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]
Re^3: Unwritten Perl Books by rjray (Chaplain) on Jul 13, 2004 at 05:45 UTC
Large Scale Programming in Perl -- "Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules" There's more to large-scale programming than just the smart management of modules and packages. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend the Alpaca book for the areas it covers, but it wouldn't be the only source to use in this particular case. `--rjray`	[reply]
Re^4: Unwritten Perl Books by stvn (Monsignor) on Jul 13, 2004 at 13:59 UTC
There's more to large-scale programming than just the smart management of modules and packages. I agree, and it seems to be to be a hard thing to find good books on. When I was looking around about a year ago, all I was able to find was a lot of research papers online. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend the Alpaca book for the areas it covers, but it wouldn't be the only source to use in this particular case. I am not familiar with the "Alpaca" book, can you elaborate? And any other suggestions you have would be most appreciated. They don't need to be specifically about perl either, I know several other langauges as well, and I am also interested in theory/best-practices/concepts/etc. -stvn	[reply]
Re^5: Unwritten Perl Books by davorg (Chancellor) on Jul 13, 2004 at 14:09 UTC
Re^5: Unwritten Perl Books by rjray (Chaplain) on Jul 14, 2004 at 00:35 UTC
Re^3: Unwritten Perl Books by stvn (Monsignor) on Jul 12, 2004 at 18:37 UTC
How are these books lacking in what you are looking for? They are not lacking I guess, my bookshelf is lacking :) "Data Munging with Perl" is new to me, I had never seen that one before, but you can bet I will order it ASAP. As for your fine book, I have to admit, I skimmed over it several times, but never looked closely enough to see all that it was about. I suppose maybe I should pick that one up as well, unless of course you have some extra copies lying around you wanna give away :) -stvn	[reply]
Re^2: Unwritten Perl Books by davorg (Chancellor) on Jul 13, 2004 at 08:23 UTC
Large Scale Programming in Perl I actually proposed something like this to O'Reilly last year. It would have been an overview of current software engineering best practices and how they apply to Perl. There would have been chapters on extreme programming, refactoring, design patterns, testing and many other similar topics. O'Reilly didn't think there was an audience for it (which is probably true as there doesn't seem to be much of an audience for many Perl books right now[1]). Maybe I should see if I can knock out a few samples chapters and submit them to perl.com as articles. [1] If my royalty statements are anything to go by :) -- <http://www.dave.org.uk> "The first rule of Perl club is you do not talk about Perl club." -- Chip Salzenberg	[reply]
Re^3: Unwritten Perl Books by valdez (Monsignor) on Jul 13, 2004 at 15:07 UTC
Yes, please! I'm sure we will be very glad to see something like that published on perl.com! Ciao, Valerio	[reply]
Re^3: Unwritten Perl Books by stvn (Monsignor) on Jul 13, 2004 at 16:18 UTC
I second that, I would read those perl.com articles as well. -stvn	[reply]