Modern Perl

Piers Cawley

One of the people who make me think that Perl is still worth knowing is chromatic, the ex-editor of O’Reilly’s perl.com. He’s one of the core team who are working to bring the Perl 6 Christmas, a vector of test infection, an extreme programming practitioner and, right now at least, no longer on Giles Bowkett’s christmas card list.

One of the people who make me think that Perl is still worth knowing is chromatic, the ex-editor of O’Reilly’s perl.com. He’s one of the core team who are working to bring the Perl 6 Christmas, a vector of test infection, an extreme programming practitioner and, right now at least, no longer on Giles Bowkett’s christmas card list.

When I wrote the Healthcheck: Perl for (oh ghod, they’ve rebranded) The H, I mentioned that O’Reilly hadn’t announced Perl: The Good Parts yet. This was an allusion to something chromatic had said when I interviewed him for the article - at the time he was pitching that very book, but it seems he got knocked back.

So, he’s writing a book and a blog on Modern Perl, and a jolly good blog it is too. It reads like a manifesto in places, but it’s a good manifesto, so that’s okay. You should read him. If you’re a publisher, you should definitely talk to him. If you’re a ruby programmer, don’t be in the least bit surprised if he’s rude about the ruby community…