In this class aimed at advanced beginner and intermediate Perl programmers, we will learn how to implement Mark-Jason Dominus's dictum:  ''Repeated Code Is a Mistake.''  The presenter will use examples from his own code as it has evolved over the last three years to demonstrate the benefits of:

Putting Blocks of Repeated Code into Subroutines

Putting Frequently Used Subroutines into Packages

Inheritance and Polymorphism in Object-Oriented Perl

Contributing Frequently Used Packages to CPAN

The principal benefits of not repeating code are improved readability, maintainability and reusability.  Following the class participants should have a better eye for repetitious code and a better sense of how to manage it.