I have noticed the Perl Cookbook, 2nd Edition as an outstanding reference. How about the work Perl by Example, Fifth Edition? How does it compare? Would you recommend it as a reference as well?
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Hi Everyone.
I am learning from the book "Learning Perl" and so far the journey is thankfully going great!
One thing noticed about Perl is that although the developer community here is smaller than other mainstream languages it feels very tight-knit. Is that just me or were you also drawn to Perl because of the strong community responsiveness to each other?
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(dix) 9 great CPAN modules released last week
Updates for great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12. App...niceperl.blogspot.com
UUID::Tiny has a weird way of getting a random 32bit integer using 2x random 16 bit integers bitwise OR'd together:
sub _rand_32bit { _init_globals(); my $v1 = int(rand(65536)) % 65536; my $v2 = int(rand(65536)) % 65536; return ($v1 << 16) | $v2; }
Anyone know why you would do this instead of just: my $rand = int(rand(2**32));? Also why the modulus, isn't it redundant?
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I forgot it was CPAN Day, but it still is CPAN Day in parts of the world so maybe you can get some CPAN housecleaning in. I use this day to delete old versions of my distributions from CPAN.
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