Plain Old Perl

Not every professional developer using Perl needs, or wants, to master the full set of Perl capabilities to do their work properly. Plain Old Perl presents an interpretation of the Perl language designed to make development and support a more accessible process. The POP style of perl programming encourages developers to limit themselves to a specific subset of Perl syntax and to organize their application, data and project files in a simple, standardized way. The goal of POP development is to create a readable, easily written, shared and managed Perl code base. This book is not an introduction to Perl; it is an introduction to the POP subset of Perl. The POP development style is particularly appropriate to tools and automation. This book is directed to those who need to use perl as a part of their job, but are not interested in become expert at the language as a whole. The book includes a sample application and a link to a companion website which has supporting tools and templates.