Perl Hacks

Month: September 2012

  • Learning from Bad Code

    I’ve written before about Linux Format’s habit of sharing badly written Perl code. I thought things were improving, but in the new edition (November 2012, issue 163) they’re back to their old tricks. This time it’s a tutorial called “Starfield: Learn new languages”. In this tutorial Mike Saunders writes similar starfield simulation code in C,…

  • Perl School 3

    The second Perl School course is just under four weeks away (and there are still tickets available) but it’s time to start looking ahead. The third Perl School is going to be on 8th December. Like the others, it will be at Google Campus.  But this time the subject will be slightly different. The first…