Using Modern Perl
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Since 2001, Perl 5 has undergone a renaissance. Modern Perl programs are powerful, maintainable, and understandable. Come learn how to take advantage of perl circa 2010.
Description
It’s easy to find examples of poorly-written Perl code: global variables, punctuation soup, copy and paste code, commented-out functions. Who’d want to read that? Who could maintain it?
Modern Perl code is different. The past decade has produced important new features and powerful new techniques for writing clear, concise, maintainable, and reusable Perl. These new developments build on each other to replace awkward, painful, or difficult to use correctly approaches with simple code.
Learn how to understand context, to embrace lexical scoping, to manage CPAN installations without pain, to perform pain-free automated testing, to embrace the CPAN development model, to adopt new features of Perl 5.10 and 5.12, and to take advantage of the Moose object system.
Learn about the Perl renaissance and rediscover the joy of Perl.
Tags
Open Source, perl, tutorial, hacking, software development
Speaker
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chromatic x
Onyx Neon Inc.- Website: http://www.onyxneon.com/
- Blog: http://www.modernperlbooks.com/
- Twitter: chromatic_x
- Identi.ca: chromatic
Biography
chromatic has a decade of experience contributing to free and open source software projects. He’s contributed to Perl 1, Perl 5, and Perl 6, and is a lead developer of the Parrot virtual machine. You may recognize him from the books Modern Perl, Modern Perl Testing, Parrot Developer’s Guide, How to Cook Forty Humans with Perl, and Defeating the Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse with Perl and Parrot.
He is the publisher of Onyx Neon Press, focusing on producing great books about software, technology, and modern living. In his spare time, he writes novels and works on secret projects to improve the world.
He does not advocate the inevitable zombie apocalypse, but forewarned is forearmed.
Sessions
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- Title: Using Modern Perl
- Track: Cooking
- Room: St. Johns
- Time: 2:30 – 3:15pm
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Excerpt:
Since 2001, Perl 5 has undergone a renaissance. Modern Perl programs are powerful, maintainable, and understandable. Come learn how to take advantage of perl circa 2010.
- Speakers: chromatic x