Eric Mesa’s Reviews > Programming Perl > Status Update

Skimmed chapters 14 and 15 - they don't apply to me now. Onto part 3 - Perl as technology. This is fascinating, even if I'm skimming because it's way lower-level than I need at the moment.

Just about done with OOP chapter. *MY* takeaway - just don't do OOP with Perl. It seems like it's not meant for it and was bolted on. (At least as of v5.14 when the book was written). If you need OOP with scripting/interpreted language - Python and Ruby seem a better bet.

Package on its own was a bit abstract. I didn't get the point. Once I read about modules it made more sense. I'm surprised (with how detailed this book is) that the module section wasn't larger. But I guess it just falls out from everything else covered so far. Or may is better covered in the Learning Perl trilogy.

There was a lot of really interesting stuff in the refrences chapter, but it's way above the programmign I'm currently doing in Perl. Data Structures was neat - basically in Perl everything else is implemented via arrays and hashes. Packages - so far it's been a bit too abstract for me.

Finally came across some stuff that would have helped me yesterday with dereferencing from within subroutines.

Done with subroutines and onto reference. A lot of the later stuff went over my head. will have to refer back to this if I ever come across a real Perl-head's code

Finally at subroutines

After 10 more pages of regex left.....

regexes are complex, who knew?

Continue to move through the regex chapter. Mostly very interesting. Did skim over some parts, but I've got 1-2 books just on regexes that I'll probably tackle at some point.