modern_perl_book

I've written and edited books in a format called PseudoPOD for many years now. My company has several tools to validate and emit other formats, including XHTML, LaTeX, ePub, and PDF. This works very well for us. Many of these tools are available from the Modern Perl repository on Github: http://github.com/chromatic/modern_perl_book

The Modern Perl Book was also written via Github: https://github.com/chromatic/modern_perl_book/network

(Second try at this) First, anyone who says that Python or Ruby is not even comparable to Perl is full of it or very mistaken. They are close enough that we quickly run into the narcissism of small differences [1]. Second, in my experience HN ranges from uninterested to hostile when it comes to Perl. I read lots about Perl, but many of the blogs or forums I frequent are Perl-centric. My point is simply that you shouldn't judge by "what you read" if what you read is a function of what you choose or who you follow. Third, and most importantly, the Perl5 community doesn't seem anywhere near dead. Off the top of my head, I'm particularly happy with a slew of new tools for working with Perl and CPAN: cpanm[2], perlbrew[3], cpan-outdated[4], pmuninstall[5], cpansearch [6] (written in C, but obviously made for the Perl community). There's also P

May I gently suggest my own Modern Perl? http://github.com/chromatic/modern_perl_book/