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Perl Hacks
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With more than a million dedicated programmers, Perl has proven to be
the best computing language for the latest trends in computing and
business. While other languages have stagnated, Perl remains fresh
thanks to its community-based development model, which encourages the
sharing of information among users. This tradition of knowledge-sharing
allows developers to find answers to almost any Perl question they can
dream up.
And you can find many of those answers right here in Perl Hacks. Like
all books in O'Reilly's "Hacks" series, Perl Hacks appeals to a variety
of programmers, whether you're a experienced developer or a dabbler who simply
enjoys exploring technology. Each hack is a short lesson - some are practical
exercises that teach you essential skills, while others merely illustrate some
of the fun things that Perl can do. Most hacks have two parts: a direct answer
to the immediate problem you need to solve right now and a deeper, subtler technique
that you can adapt to other situations. Learn how to add CPAN shortcuts to the
Firefox web browser, read files backwards, write graphical games in Perl, and
much more.
For your convenience, Perl Hacks is divided by topic - not according
to
any sense of relative difficulty - so you can skip around and stop at any hack
you like. Chapters include:
- Productivity Hacks
- User Interaction
- Data Munging
- Working with Modules
- Object Hacks
- Debugging
Whether you're a newcomer or an expert, you'll find great value in Perl Hacks,
the only Perl guide that offers something useful and fun for everyone.
About the Authors
chromatic is the technical editor of the O'Reilly Network, specializing
in programming, Linux®, and open source development. He's also been known
to evangelize to his co-workers toward better development practices, being the
author of Extreme Programming Pocket Guide and the co-author of Perl Testing:
A Developer's Notebook.
chromatic has occasionally produced startling numbers of test suites -- and
a few testing modules -- for projects including Perl 5, Perl 6, Pugs, and Parrot.
Someday, he'd like to claim some responsibility for improving the quality of
all software, by writing articles, producing good code, giving interesting talks,
and developing better tools.
He lives just west of Portland, Oregon with two cats, a creek in his backyard,
and a park one house over. It's too late for him to choose a more realistic-sounding
pen name.
Dr. Damian Conway is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and Software
Engineering at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), where he teaches object-oriented
software engineering. He is an effective teacher, an accomplished writer, and
the author of several popular Perl modules. He is also a semi-regular contributor
to the Perl Journal. In 1998 he was the winner of the Larry Wall Award for Practical
Utility for two modules (Getopt::Declare and Lingua::EN::Inflect) and in 1999
he won his second "Larry" for his Coy.pm haiku-generation module.
Curtis "Ovid" Poe is a Senior Programmer at Kineticode, Inc.
and lives in Portland, OR.
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