Perl's Worst Best Practices

By Daina Pettit
Date: Tuesday, 21 June 2016 14:00
Duration: 50 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language: English

It's been over ten years since O'Reilly published Damian Conway's "Perl Best Practices". Some of these practices are excellent ideas and should be followed. Some are just plain bad ideas. Some may have been good ideas at the time, but Perl has changed and so are no longer valid. We'll talk about these bad ideas and why they are bad. We'll also talk about Perl Critic which auto-enforces some of these practices. This should be a lively discussion and may be controversial.

Attended by: Daina Pettit, Chad Granum (‎Exodist‎), Todd Rinaldo (‎toddr‎), Dave Rolsky (‎autarch‎), Lee Johnson, Steven Nunnally, Jeff Till, Steve Nolte (‎mcsnolte‎), Tom Browder (‎tbrowder‎), Marcos Laborde, Brian Kelly, David H. Adler (‎dha‎), James Lenz (‎Jim‎), Chris Shelton, gary, Mike Weisenborn, Tushar Dave, Beth Rhinelander, Jason Crome (‎CromeDome‎), Matt Creenan, Alexander Vipach, Michael South (‎msouth‎), Ross Steiner (‎rdsteiner‎), Adam Boyers, Cody Brown (‎cbrown‎), Paul Johnson, D Ruth Bavousett (‎druthb‎), atoomic, Dylan Hardison (‎dylan‎), Leonard Harris, Gonzalo Diethelm (‎gonzo‎), Upasana Shukla, Douglas Schrag (‎dmaestro‎), Mark Gardner (‎mjgardner‎), Chip Salzenberg (‎Chip‎), Brad Lhotsky, Rish, Rob N ★ (‎robn‎), Jeremy Holland, brian carlson, John Anderson (‎genehack‎), Doug Bell (‎preaction‎), Dana Jacobsen (‎danaj‎), Julian Brown, Aaron Staves (‎astaves‎), Walt Mankowski (‎waltman‎), Eric Ellis (‎jellisii‎), Ben Rosengart, Aaron Nelson, Jim Toth, Turd Furgison (‎fartfart‎), Ricardo Signes (‎rjbs‎),