Perl Medic: Transforming Legacy Code published

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ADDISON-WESLEY ANNOUNCES THE PUBLICATION OF 
"Perl Medic: Transforming Legacy Code"

Peter Scott Authors the First Systematic Guide
to Perl Software Engineering

Upper Saddle River, NJ (March 12, 2004) - Addison-Wesley,
the leading publisher of advanced technology books,
announces the publication of "Perl Medic: Transforming Legacy Code"
by Peter J. Scott, a book to assist Perl programmers in the critical and
commonplace task of maintaining inherited Perl code.

"In the real world, you're lucky if you get to spend all your time
developing one new program after another. Much of the time you'll have
to deal with someone else's. In the real world, programmers take over
responsibility for programs written by people they might not know, like,
or agree with. Even if you're fortunate enough to avoid this situation,
you'll still have to maintain your own code," Scott writes in his preface.  

Within the text, Author Scott presents and explains the Perl software
engineering practices which are best suited for enterprise environments.
Within this framework, he details specific case studies of how to maintain,
optimize and scale any Perl software, regardless of when it was written,
and by whom.

"Perl Medic is more than a book. It is a well-crafted strategy for
approaching, updating, and furthering the cause of inherited Perl
programs," said Allen Wyke, co-author of several computer books, including
"JavaScript Unleashed" and "Pure JavaScript".

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Peter J. Scott runs Pacific Systems Design Technologies, providing Perl
training, application development, and enterprise systems analysis. A Perl
developer for more than 20 years, he has created programs for NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory. He is the lead author of "Perl DeBugged",
Addison-Wesley, copyright 2001. 


To see the table-of-contents and other book information, visit
Addison-Wesley publisher site:


http://www.awprofessional.com/catalog/

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