New Features of Perl 5.10 and Perl Best Practices (2 of 2)
New Features of Perl 5.10 and Perl Best Practices (2 of 2)
By Damian Conway (damian) from Melbourne.pm
Date: Friday, 7 August 2009 09:00
Duration: 360 minutes
Target audience: Everyday Perl
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One of the major challenges of using Perl in a real-world development environment is that Perl's "More Than One Way To Do It" philosophy often means there are far too many choices when it comes to solving a particular problem with the language. When everyone is free to do it their own way, they often do so at the expense of maintainability, usability, and sometimes even performance.
On this second day of the class, we'll examine and discuss a range of consistent Perl coding practices aimed at producing robust, maintainable, and efficient control structures, data types, error handling, I/O, subroutines and modules. We'll also look at the critical issues of code layout and documentation, and perhaps other topics (such as regexes, modules, or testing), as time permits.
Attended by: Giuseppe Maxia (gmax), Elizabeth Mattijsen (liz), Luis Rodrigues (goblin), Andrew Ford, Carlos Timóteo (ctimoteo), Dirk De Nijs (ddn123456), David Faux, Ronald Blaschke (rblasch), Jordi Porta, Wieland Gmeiner, Pedro Branco,