•Re^2: Unwritten Perl Books

[merlyn]

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.

[stvn]

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 :)

[rjray]

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.

[stvn]

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.

[davorg]

I am not familiar with the "Alpaca" book, can you elaborate?

That's Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules which was mentioned before.

[rjray]

I am not familiar with the "Alpaca" book, can you elaborate? And any other suggestions you have would be most appreciated.

One of the better ones I've read is Large-Scale C++ Software Design, which was recommended by a presenter at one of the OSCONs. His paper was on large-scale software dev in Perl, as well. The book is C++ slanted, but focuses more on concepts than code, making is more generally useful.