Perl Medic

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• dragonquest · Apr 29, 2011 · Recommends

  …project to both read and use). While Modern Perl and Perl Best Practices seem to be now the defacto texts to follow in this field, I highly suggest to also supplement your learning of good Perl by reading Perl Medic by Peter Scott. While its main purpose is how to maintain a legacy codebase, its an absolute gem when it comes to what type of Perl code you should be churning out.

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• petesergeant · Apr 29, 2022 · Recommends

  To my mind, Perl Medic by Peter Scott is the best book I've ever read on refactoring and working with legacy code

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• hercynium · Jun 12, 2011 · Recommends

  re: Perl Medic... Excellent book. What I learned there has served me very well with Perl, and also helped me with work on some crufty Python as well! Also, yeah... I should take-back the TDD comment, or at least re-word…

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• hercynium · Oct 26, 2011 · Recommends

  Two excellent books I can recommend for someone working with legacy Perl: Perl Medic (Peter J. Scott) - http://amzn.com/0201795264 Effective Perl Programming (Joseph N. Hall, Joshua A. McAdams, brian d foy) - http://amzn.com/0321496949 Besides those, having a good reference to the language…

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• peteretep · Feb 11, 2018 · Recommends

  Perl Medic is a phenomenal book about refactoring in the general case, through the lens of Perl

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