I'm also rediscovering Perl, after a few years of mostly working in C and Python (really, I wasn't doing a lot of development during that time, so I've still done a lot more Perl work than any other language).
MJD's Higher Order Perl is a fantastic resource for "new" techniques as applied to Perl. And, I've read the latest edition of the Camel book and found that I never really understood the language when I was using it three or four years ago (at the time I had read Learning Perl, and Perl in a Nutshell). Perl is so much more powerful, concise, and pretty, than I'd realized.
Perl 5.10 and 6 are really quite nice, as well. Objects are still somewhat quirky in 5.10, but will be fixed beautifully in 6. Likewise for named function arguments. Field Hashes are neat.
Oh, and using JSON with Perl is lovely--since everything we do is passing around references to arrays and hashes and such, converting a traditional HTML UI to an advanced JavaScript one is so much easier than I expected (and because objects are hashes, it'd be possible to do something similar, even if our code were more object oriented). Really quite smooth. JSON::XS is super fast and easy to use.
MJD's Higher Order Perl is a fantastic resource for "new" techniques as applied to Perl. And, I've read the latest edition of the Camel book and found that I never really understood the language when I was using it three or four years ago (at the time I had read Learning Perl, and Perl in a Nutshell). Perl is so much more powerful, concise, and pretty, than I'd realized.
Perl 5.10 and 6 are really quite nice, as well. Objects are still somewhat quirky in 5.10, but will be fixed beautifully in 6. Likewise for named function arguments. Field Hashes are neat.
Oh, and using JSON with Perl is lovely--since everything we do is passing around references to arrays and hashes and such, converting a traditional HTML UI to an advanced JavaScript one is so much easier than I expected (and because objects are hashes, it'd be possible to do something similar, even if our code were more object oriented). Really quite smooth. JSON::XS is super fast and easy to use.