Conway familiar to many in the Perl community offers 256 guidelines on theart of coding to help you write better Perl code in fact the best Perl codeyou possib... » 

Conway familiar to many in the Perl community offers 256 guidelines on theart of coding to help you write better Perl code in fact the best Perl codeyou possibly can. The guidelines cover code layout naming conventions choiceof data and control structures program decomposition interface design andimplementation modularity object orientation error handling testing anddebugging. Theyre designed to work together to produce code that is clearrobust efficient maintainable and concise but Dr. Conway doesnt pretendthat this is the one true universal and unequivocal set of best practices.Instead Perl Best Practices offers coherent and widely applicablesuggestions based on realworld experience of how code is actually writtenrather than on someones ivorytower theories on how software ought to becreated. Most of all Perl Best Practices offers guidelines that actuallywork and that many developers around the world are already using. Much likePerl itself these guidelines are about helping you to get your job donewithout getting in the way. «