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Re: Perl Medic: Transforming Legacy Code by Peter J. Scottby adrianh (Chancellor) |
on Apr 23, 2004 at 10:32 UTC ( [id://347567]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
It is a nice book from what I've seen (and that's not just because it's the first time I've seen somebody use one of my modules in an actual print book :-) You've not really mentioned the main subject of the book which is given away by the full title "Perl Medic: Maintaining Inherited Code". It has lots of concrete advice on approaching existing legacy Perl code and turning it into something vaguely sane. If you're faced with this sort of task and are unsure how to approach it then it's definitely worth looking at. For those who are interested perlmedic.com has downloads for code + errata. Chapter 3 is available online. The table of contents gives an idea of what it covers:
If this all sounds familiar to you then you're probably not going to get a lot out of it. If you've not been faced with having to take over somebody else's code, or aren't used to building and maintaining larger Perl applications, then it's a useful read. Peter Scott's other Perl book 'Perl Debugged' is also a good read, and not to be confused with the terrible 'Debugging Perl'.
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