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+It’s been a very long time since there was a decent Perl book that covered web development. Which means that people are often learning Perl web development using books that are fifteen years old.
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+Perl web development has moved on a lot since then and people who follow these out of date books will be picking up many bad habits.
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+So this project is an attempt to fix this problem. I’m writing a new book about Perl web development in Perl.