3.14 Resources

A vast number of techniques are used in OO software development in Perl; many more than I have space to explore in this book. For more details than can fit into this book, I recommend these sources for more details on OO programming in Perl.

• Object Oriented Perl by Damian Conway (Manning Publishers). This is an excellent book and is useful for beginners to advanced. It even includes a few bioinformatics examples! My introduction to OO Perl has drawn gratefully on Conway's book. I urge readers who will be doing further OO Perl programming to get a copy. Some material is slightly dated; for example, the material on pseudohashes should be skipped .

• The perlobj page from the Perl documentation.

• The perlboot tutorial page from the Perl documentation is a beginning introduction to Perl objects.

• The perltoot tutorial page from the Perl documentation is a more detailed introduction to Perl objects.

• The perltootc tutorial page from the Perl documentation also includes more information on class methods .

• The perlbot tutorial page from the Perl documentation is a bag of tricks for Perl OO programming.

• Some books already mentioned in earlier chapters have extensive information about Perl OO programming, such as Programming Perl , Perl Cookbook , and Advanced Perl Programming .