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Perl Module Mechanics & Related Phenomena

Module Mechanics

How to build a perl module

Module Anatomy

A skeleton for a Perl module

Module PODs

How to document a perl module

Program Anatomy

A skeleton for a Perl program

Program PODs

How to document a perl program

PerlMonth Articles

• Network Programming with IO::Socket
• linkcheck
• XS Mechanics
  • Introduction
  • Architecture
  • Tools
  • Modules
  • Align::NW
• Flexing Your Modules (There's more than one way to do it...)
• Writing usenet applications with News::* modules
• Representing Sets in Perl
• Finding your files with File::Find
• Parsing the Command Line with Getopt::* modules

Programming

Perl Idioms

There's more than one way to say it...

Perl & Linguistics

Larry Wall on linguistic aspects of Perl

Programming Paradigms

it's a state of mind...

The Programmers' Stone

"We should be willing to look at the source code we produce not as the end product of a more interesting process, but as an artifact in its own right. It should look good stuck up on the wall."

Perl Modules

Convert::yEnc

yEnc decoder, with database of file parts

Game::Stones

Play the game of Stones

News::Newsrc

Manage newsrc files

Pod::Tree

Parse a POD into a static tree. Includes Pod::Tree::HTML for translating PODs to HTML, and Pod::Tree::Perl* for translating the Perl PODs to HTML.

Set::IntSpan

Manage sets of integers, newsrc style: 1-7, 15, 23-28

Set::Window

Manages an interval on the integer line

String::Levenshtein

Computes the Levenshtein distance between two strings