Object Oriented Perl

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• d2 · Aug 1, 2011 · Recommends

  …this sarcastic and incomplete post. Once you've gotten through OReilly's beginner Perl books and "Programming Perl", if you truly want to learn how to scale Perl in the enterprise, read Damian Conway's Object Oriented Perl. Once you can write solid consistent OO Perl, read "Apache modules with Perl and C".

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• G3rn0ti · Apr 29, 2022 · Recommends

  …Jason Dominus: "Higher-Order Perl" as it is a great introduction of functional programming and goes into all the gory details of how to implement lazy evaluation on top of closures. Damian Conway: "Object Oriented Perl" Comes to my mind as well. It's basically an introduction to object oriented programming so kind of similar in spirit to "Higher-Order Perl". It even talks about implementation techniques of OO protocols.…

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• vram22 · Oct 9, 2018 · Recommends

  …brilliant. I bought and read an intermediate Perl book by him. Some really good stuff in there. Forget the name of the book now, but it should be possible to find it by a web search. It might have been Object-oriented Perl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Conway [1] That was a kind of mild good-humored jab at him, BTW, the kind of thing that he does a lot in his talks and writings :)

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• hrunt · Nov 11, 2023 · Recommends

  …My favorite little feature I learned about was the ability to pass open filehandles between processes (not threads, but processes), which I later used for open connection caching in Usenet systems. 2. Object Oriented Perl[1] The mind-bending part of this book for me was when Conway explains about using structures other than hashes (dicts) as Perl objects. Arrays were interesting, scalars slightly more so, but then functions…

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• zovirl · Oct 20, 2025 · Recommends

  I was lucky, early in my career, to work at a place which used a lot of Perl and to read Damian Conway’s book, Object Oriented Perl. It was an amazing, mind-expanding book for me. It was filled with examples of different approaches to object-oriented programming, more than I ever dreamt existed, and it showed how to implement them…

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• windsurfer · Sep 1, 2009 · Recommends

  1. The Mythical Man Month (Some interesting essays, some dated) 2. The Art of Agile Development (First agile book to read, certainly interesting) 3. Object Oriented Perl (Very interesting stuff... I've read it a few times but keep flipping open to chapters and being in awe of the cleverness of the author)

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• strlen · Jul 17, 2008 · Mentions

  …functional language. Don't learn it to write webapps in it. Learn Perl - and not just for webapps (although mod_perl is incredibly powerful as far as fast, transactional, web applications go), including Object Oriented Perl. Learn enough to automate your systems administration / operations tasks (being able to modify bugzilla would be a plus too).

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