Hall J.N., McAdams J.A., brian d foy Effective Perl Programming: Ways to Write Better, More Idiomatic Perl

Addison-Wesley Professional, 2010. — 500 p. — 2nd Ed. — (Effective Software Development Series). — ISBN: 0321496949, 9780321496942Modern Perl now handles Unicode and recognizes that the world is more than just ASCII. You need to get over that hump, too, so we’ve added an entire chapter on it. Perl might be one of the most-tested code bases, a trend started by Michael Schwern several years ago and now part of almost every module distribution. Gone are the days when Perlers celebrated the Wild West days of code slinging. Now you can have rapid prototyping and good testing at the same time. If you’re working in the enterprise arena, you’ll want to read our advice on testing. If you’re a regular-expression fiend, you’ll want to use all of the new regex features that the latest versions of Perl provide. We’ll introduce you to the popular ones.