July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
13h 8m
English
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Appendix E. Bibliography
Perl Coding and Development Practices
Testing and Debugging
Perl Debugged. Peter J. Scott and Ed Wright. Addison-Wesley, 2001, ISBN: 0-201-70054-9.
Perl Medic: Transforming Legacy Code. Peter J. Scott. Addison-Wesley, 2004, ISBN: 0-201-79526-4.
Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook. Ian Langworth and chromatic. O'Reilly, 2005, ISBN: 0-59610-092-2.
Algorithms and Efficiency
Data Munging with Perl. David Cross. Manning Publications, 2001, ISBN: 1-930110-00-6.
Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs with Perl. Joseph N. Hall with Randal Schwartz. Addison-Wesley, 1997, ISBN: 0-201-41975-0.
Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs. Mark Jason Dominus. Morgan Kaufmann, 2005, ISBN: 1-55860-701-3.
Mastering Algorithms with Perl. Jon Orwant, Jarkko Hietaniemi, and John Macdonald. O'Reilly, 1999, ISBN: 1-56592-398-7.
Mastering Regular Expressions, Second Edition. Jeffrey E. F. Friedl. O'Reilly, 2002, ISBN: 0-596-00289-0.
Object Oriented Perl. Damian Conway. Manning, 1999, ISBN: 1-884777-79-1.
Perl Cookbook, Second Edition. Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington. O'Reilly, 2003, ISBN: 0-59600-313-7.
Coding Style and Common Mistakes
The perlstyle manpage
The perltrap manpage
General Coding and Development Practices
Coding Standards
C Style: Standards and Guidelines. David Straker. Prentice Hall, 1992, ISBN: 0-13-116898-3.
The Elements of Programming Style, 2nd edition. Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger. McGraw-Hill, 1978, ISBN: 0-07-034207-5.
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