On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:58:45AM -0700, Daniel C. wrote: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Jacob Fugal <lukf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I already knew perl when I got this one, so I don't know how good of a > > "learning perl" book it makes, but Perl Best Practices is really good. > > I have a friend who used to write Perl while high on LSD. It ran > fine, and worked, but when he looked at it later he had no idea how or > why. For this and other reasons, I find the idea of Perl having "best > practices" to be slightly amusing.
Odd. I don't recall "Take LSD" as one of the Best Practices. > > (This should be taken as an amusing anecdote and not as an invitation > to start a flame war. As I started reading this, I thought you were going to say, "... and not as an invitation to take LSD." -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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