Doesn't live up to it's hype.

The book didn't really give me any insight in how to transform legacy code to modern oop. The examples were ok but considering I bought this based on other reviews I figured it was great. It's not. Of the 30,000 lines of code I inherited in my first perl script, I may have refered to this book one time. Don't expect much help in modernizing, just seems to focus of figuring out bad code not refactoring. Maybe I'll use it as I update other scripts but for now it sits well under perl by example and camel 2nd ed.

Other Reviews

• Doesn't live up to it's hype.
• great if you inherit wretched old code
• Bad title, good contents
• A "must have" for every Perl beginner...
• One of the best Perl books out there