Is Cookbook good perl?

2009-03-26 Thread David Ihnen
Rolf Banting wrote: Fair enough Simon. I would recommend you look at the Cookbook too - it has recipes for everything from iterating through a hash to web automation. http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/perl/cookbook/ Do people think that the cookbook is good perl practice? Its been mentioned a fe

Re: Is Cookbook good perl?

2009-03-26 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:39 PM, David Ihnen wrote: > Do people think that the cookbook is good perl practice? Yes, it's an excellent resource and you'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands. It wouldn't be where I would turn to find out the current best ORM module, but it is where I would tur

Re: Is Cookbook good perl?

2009-03-26 Thread Dan Stephenson
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:53:30 -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote: Object Oriented Perl has more "age" issues than the Cookbook, IMO. It's still an entertaining read, but my advice for newbies would be to read the OO docs that come with Perl for understanding and then consider using Moose/Mouse for ne

Re: Is Cookbook good perl?

2009-03-26 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Chris Prather wrote: > This is to say if you're making the decision for Mouse, you need to > know what all that entails and currently the propaganda machine is > saying that Mouse == Moose + FAST which simply isn't true. My reason for mentioning Mouse is not speed