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Perl Index - Perl Book :
Debugging Perl: Troubleshooting for Programmers
by Martin C. Brown Paperback: 425 pages Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing ISBN: 0072126760; 1st edition (October 2, 2000) Write error-free programs from development to deployment! This unique resource provides tricks and tips for preventing errors, reducing troubleshooting time, and establishing preventive maintenance techniques. Squash those bugs and deliver clean, smooth-running Perl code. Step-by-step tutorial on how to eliminate buggy code from Perl and prevent errors from slipping into programs. Also provides design tips and a cross-referenced appendix of error messages. From the Back Cover: Write error-free programs from development to deployment! Sidestep disaster with the tips, techniques, and expert insights contained in this one-of-a-kind resource. Debugging Perl shows you, step-by-step, how to fix buggy code and prevent errors from ever slipping into your programs. All the details you need to know are here--from avoiding syntax, logic, and variable problems as you program to troubleshooting with the Perl debugger, profiler, and compiler. Plus, you'll get design tips, little-known traps to watch out for, and a cross-referenced appendix of error messages. When your Perl scripts must run cleanly on every system every time, turn to the real-world solutions offered in this unique handbook. Learn to: • Optimize your code using the Perl debugger, profiler, and compiler • Troubleshoot variable expressions, regular expressions, compile-time statements, run-time outputs • Stamp out bugs caused by syntactical and logical mistakes • Implement subroutines, modules, and expressions to automatically detect potential problems • Trap errors using manual techniques, the Perl debuggers, and through the use of Perl's pragma system • Manage Perl memory usage and control system resources • Evaluate your scripts using test harnesses, code breaking, and system stress calculations Customer Reviews Reviewer: Goldin Evgeny from Israel Very good. Author isn't only describing "how to debug Perl programs" but he's mainly concerned in "how to write Perl programs that you won't need to debug" - this sounds better, right ? A "hands-on" developer experience brought by someone who obviously stepped on most of errors people may step and trying to warn you before you're doing the same. If "Programming Perl" is about "Perl", this book is about "real-world-Perl" and .. hey .. those things aren't the same, as you should know (you *will* after reading the book). Thank you, Martin ! Reviewer: A reader from NJ United States After a countless number of Perl books have been published, not much has been published like this book. The Learning Perl books are great, but learning the syntax isn't always the needed information to programmers. This book is different in that it focuses on some of the quirky odd things that you may run into programming. After designing in Perl for 3 years, I still run into times the code does not work the way I thought it would (maybe from thinking in C, Java, etc terms) and need a book of quirks instead a book of syntax. Finally, a book about how Perl behaves (or misbehaves). Great work. Long live Perl. |
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