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Intermediate Perl
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Perl is a versatile, powerful programming language used in a variety of disciplines,
ranging from system administration to web programming to database manipulation.
One slogan of Perl is that it makes easy things easy and hard things possible.
Intermediate Perl is about making the leap from the easy things to the
hard ones.
Originally released in 2003 as Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules
and revised and updated for Perl 5.8, this book offers a gentle but thorough
introduction to intermediate programming in Perl. Written by the authors of
the best-selling Learning Perl, it picks up where that book left off.
Topics include:
- Packages and namespaces
- References and scoping
- Manipulating complex data structures
- Object-oriented programming
- Writing and using modules
- Testing Perl code
- Contributing to CPAN
Following the successful format of Learning Perl, we designed each chapter
in the book to be small enough to be read in just an hour or two, ending with
a series of exercises to help you practice what you've learned. To use the book,
you just need to be familiar with the material in Learning Perl and have
ambition to go further.
Perl is a different language to different people. It is a quick scripting tool
for some, and a fully-featured object-oriented language for others. It is used
for everything from performing quick global replacements on text files, to crunching
huge, complex sets of scientific data that take weeks to process. Perl is what
you make of it. But regardless of what you use Perl for, this book helps you
do it more effectively, efficiently, and elegantly.
Intermediate Perl is about learning to use Perl as a programming language,
and not just a scripting language. This is the book that turns the Perl dabbler
into the Perl programmer.
About the Authors
Randal L. Schwartz is a two-decade veteran of the software industry. He is
skilled in software design, system administration, security, technical writing,
and training. Randal has coauthored the "must-have" standards: Programming Perl,
Learning Perl, Learning Perl for Win32 Systems, and Effective Perl Learning,
and is a regular columnist for WebTechniques, PerformanceComputing,
SysAdmin, and Linux magazines.
He is also a frequent contributor to the Perl newsgroups, and has moderated
comp.lang.perl.announce since its inception. His offbeat humor and technical
mastery have reached legendary proportions worldwide (but he probably started
some of those legends himself). Randal's desire to give back to the Perl community
inspired him to help create and provide initial funding for The Perl Institute.
He is also a founding board member of the Perl Mongers (perl.org), the worldwide
Perl grassroots advocacy organization. Since 1985, Randal has owned and operated
Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. Randal can be reached for comment at merlyn@stonehenge.com
or (503) 777-0095, and welcomes questions on Perl and other related topics.
brian d foy has been an instructor for Stonehenge Consulting Services since
1998, a Perl user since he was a physics graduate student, and a die-hard Mac
user since he first owned a computer. He founded the first Perl user group,
the New York Perl Mongers, as well as the Perl advocacy nonprofit Perl Mongers,
Inc., which helped form more than 200 Perl user groups across the globe. He
maintains the perlfaq portions of the core Perl documentation, several modules
on CPAN, and some stand-alone scripts. He's the publisher of The Perl Review,
a magazine devoted to Perl, and is a frequent speaker at conferences including
the Perl Conference, Perl University, MarcusEvans BioInformatics '02, and YAPC.
His writings on Perl appear in The O'Reilly Network, The Perl Journal, Dr. Dobbs,
and The Perl Review, on use.perl.org, and in several Perl usenet groups.
Tom Phoenix has been working in the field of education since 1982. After
more than thirteen years of dissections, explosions, work with interesting animals,
and high-voltage sparks during his work at a science museum, he started teaching
Perl classes for Stonehenge Consulting Services, where he's worked since 1996.
Since then, he has traveled to many interesting locations, so you might see
him soon at a Perl Mongers' meeting. When he has time, he answers questions
on Usenet's comp.lang.perl.misc and comp.lang.perl.moderated newsgroups,
and contributes to the development and usefulness of Perl. Besides his work
with Perl, Perl hackers, and related topics, Tom spends his time on amateur
cryptography and speaking Esperanto. His home is in Portland, Oregon.
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