Yeah, I guess my weekly links effort didn’t go so well. Nevertheless, I do still collect interesting links, so let’s restart with a less ambitious irregular series of “Links” posts.
Many programmers today consider Perl to be dying. That is because they read too many shiny new Ruby and Javascript blogs, instead of checking out what the Perl community is actually up to. Damian Conway says it way better than I could.
The slogan of the day, of recent years actually, in the Perl world is Modern Perl. Once you’re ready to get started yourself, get brian d foy’s timely new Effective Perl Programming.
And if you miss the good old days of obfuscated Perl, see the nice Hidden features of Perl collection. You will also find some serious, readable and useful tricks.
