I’ve been doing some heavy Perl coding for over 5 years now. I think my most challenging was a build script I inherited. When I started, there was one copy of the script for each branch and there was no error checking.
This means bugs in one had to be fixed in 2-3 other places. Also the build rarely ran to successful completion.
When I left 3 years later, there was one script. Not only was there only one script, but it handled multiple products.
I am going to write series of post detailing the tricks. Many have been published elsewhere. One or two of them I have only seen in this particular piece of code.
I’ll try to write 1 or 2 posts a week until I exhaust this topic.
