Resumen de Practical perl tools: let me draw you a picture
A couple of years ago I had the unusual experience of being asked to help design my office when we moved to a new building. Interior desing is not something I've ever really dabbled in, but I knew one thing for sure: It had to have as many whiteboards as possible. Readers of this magazine konw that I asked for this not out of some fetish for white. slick surface. For people like us, drawing often equals thinking. We also know the value of drawing pictures to document infrastructure design, network configurations, data structures, and the lot.
Tools can make drawing these pictures easier are great. Tools that will actually automate the proccess are even better. We're going to look at both kinds of tools in this column. I want to introduce you to two of my favorite Perl modules: GraphViz and Graph::Easy.
