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Games, Diversions and Perl Culture Best of the Perl Journal

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ISBN-10: 0596003129

ISBN-13: 9780596003128

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jon Orwant, Inc. Staff O'Reilly Media, Inc. Staff O'Reilly Media

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"The Perl Journal ("TPJ) did something most print journals aspire to, but few succeed. Within a remarkable short time, "TPJ acquired a cult-following and became the voice of the Perl community. Every serious Perl programmer subscribed to it, and every notable Perl guru jumped at the opportunity to write for it. Back issues were swapped like trading cards. No longer in print format, "TPJ remains the quintessential spirit of Perl--a publication for and by Perl programmers who see fun and beauty in an admittedly quirky little language. "Games, Diversions, and Perl Culture is the third volume of "The Best of the Perl Journal, compiled and re-edited by the original editor and publisher of "The…    
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List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/17/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 600
Size: 7.17" wide x 9.17" long x 1.19" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English

Preface
Introduction
Culture
Wherefore Art, Thou?
TPJ Cover Art: From Camels to Spam
Perl Style
Home Automation with MisterHouse
Home Automation: The X10 Nitty-Gritty
A Day in the Life of comp.lang.perl.misc
Science
Perl-fect Sundials
Genetic Algorithms
How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project
PDL: The Perl Data Language
Language
Chatbot::Eliza
Infobots and Purl
Speech Synthesis
Lazy Text Formatting
Perl and MIDI: Simple Languages, Easy Music
Braille Contractions and Regular Expressions
Hypernyms, Hyponyms, Pertainyms, and Other Word Relationships
Parsing Natural Language
Word Morphology
Smart Matching for Human Names
Localizing Your Perl Programs
Internationalized Sorting
Simulating Typos with Perl
Correcting Typos with Perl
Learning Japanese with an HTML Filter
Games and Quizzes
Games in Perl
The Prisoner's Dilemma
The Rezrov Infocom Game Interpreter
Tktk: A Perl/Tk Solitaire Game
The First Perl/Internet Quiz Show
The Second Perl/Internet Quiz Show
The Third Perl/Internet Quiz Show
The Fourth Perl/Internet Quiz Show
The Perl Whirl Quiz Show
The Perl Wizard's Quiz
Poetry
Just Another Perl Haiku
Searching for Rhymes with Perl
The Perl Poetry Contest
Politics
Pairwise Voting
Secure Internet Voting
Perl and Nuclear Weapons Don't Mix
Obfuscated Perl
The Zeroth Annual Obfuscated Perl Contest
The First Obfuscated Perl Contest
The Third Obfuscated Perl Contest
The Fourth Obfuscated Perl Contest
The Fifth Obfuscated Perl Contest
One-Liners
About the Authors
Index
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