On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Fabio D'Alfonso < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > I have a lot of literature about Perl and I see that up to advanced > material potentially related to very large projects, there is not a single > attempt (it seems) to leverage UML (or similar tools) to organize the job > as a part of the learning. > Perl is both fun and powerful, but the flattened landscape Perl , Regex, > DBI, LWP, PDL, XML, and so on and on, can become to seem an enumeration not > suggesting a process to determine a mapping (or more alternatives to choose > in) between a goal and the resources available. > Some people here manage large projects and could they tell their thinks on > this? > Thanks > -- > > Fabio D'Alfonso > 'Enabling Business Through IT' > cell. +39.348.059.40.22 * > web: http://www.fabiodalfonso.com > email: [email protected] > twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fabio_dalfonso > linkedin: http://it.linkedin.com/in/fabiodalfonso > fax: +39.06.874.599.581 > BlackBerry® Wireless Enabled Address. > Fabio, For a short answer, read Simon Cozens's Advanced Perl Programming, which is an overview of the CPAN circa 2005, and http://mapofcpan.org/. I don't believe that a project management approach is correct here. There is no criterion for putting something on CPAN, so that it is more like the Internet than like a library. This means that it is better to approach the CPAN with the goal of information retrieval than the goal of curation and categorization. I have recently begun studying topic models, and it would be really interesting to run a topic model on the POD of the CPAN to see what major topics arise. However, a top-down approach in which categories are specified does not seem to me to be useful. David -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan
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