This document discusses practical tips for using Perl programming language. It suggests focusing on ordinary tasks, learning from experience and observation, choosing methods that achieve goals, and considering the results, benefits and drawbacks of different approaches. The document questions whether the user or Perl is in control and recommends completing tasks before lunch, reading manuals, and letting computers handle some work.

1. Practical Perl
brian d foy
Stonehenge Consulting Services
Frozen Perl
February 16, 2008

2. • concerned with ordinary activities
• guided by experience and observation
• adopting means to an end
• mindful of results, usefulness,
advantages, and disadvantages
• scenery that is useable

3. ?
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5. ?Does Perl
work for you?

6. ?Or do you
work for Perl?

7. Finishing
before lunch

8. Reading the
manual

9. Subcontracting
to computers

10. • concerned with ordinary activities
• guided by experience and observation
• adopting means to an end
• mindful of results, usefulness,
advantages, and disadvantages
• scenery that is useable