I started writing Perl nine months ago because of my new job. I learned it with the Modern Perl book, which is really nice and goes directly to the best practices. However, I've found that real life Perl code is full of the old/deprecated/insane ways of doing things as well. And Perl developers really take the TIMTOWTDI principle to the limit.
This article helped me to understand Perl more. And specially to understand real life Perl code better. I also liked the language designer perspective and the semantic analysis. Thanks for writing it!
I started writing Perl nine months ago because of my new job. I learned it with the Modern Perl book, which is really nice and goes directly to the best practices. However, I've found that real life Perl code is full of the old/deprecated/insane ways of doing things as well. And Perl developers really take the TIMTOWTDI principle to the limit.
This article helped me to understand Perl more. And specially to understand real life Perl code better. I also liked the language designer perspective and the semantic analysis. Thanks for writing it!