Modern Perl
Perl 5 is a popular, powerful, and robust programming language. With countless satisfied developers, tens of thousands of freely available libraries, and continual improvements to the language and its ecosystem, modern Perl development can be easy, reliable, and fun. To take advantage of the full power of Perl 5–to become a true expert, capable of solving any problem put before you–you must understand the language. Modern Perl explains Perl 5 from theory to implementation, including Perl 5.12.
Perl 1.0 came out in 1987. In the decades since then, The language has gone from a simple tool for system administration somewhere between shell scripting and C programming (Perl 1) to a powerful, general purpose language steeped in a rich heritage (Perl 5) and a consistent, coherent, rethinking of programming intended to last for at least another 25 years (Perl 6).
Even so, most Perl 5 programs in the world take far too little advantage of the language. You can write Perl 5 programs as if they were Perl 4 programs (or Perl 3 or 2 or 1), but programs written to take advantage of everything amazing the worldwide Perl 5 community has invented, polished, and discovered are shorter, faster, more powerful, and easier to maintain than their alternatives.
Modern Perl is one way to describe how experienced and effective Perl 5 programmers work. They use language idioms. They take advantage of the CPAN. They’re recognizably Perlish, and they show good taste and craftsmanship and a full understanding of Perl.
You can learn this too, whether you’ve dabbled with Perl for a decade or someone just handed you this book and said “Fix this code by Friday.”
Book Details
- Paperback: 276 pages
- Publisher: Onyx Neon Press (October, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0977920151
- ISBN-13: 978-0977920150
