Computer Science and Perl Programming Best of the Perl Journal

Name: Computer Science and Perl Programming Best of the Perl Journal
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ISBN: 9780596003104

ISBN-10: 0596003102

ISBN-13: 9780596003104

Edition: 2002

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

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In its first five years of existence, The Perl Journal ran 247 articles by over 120 authors. Every serious Perl programmer subscribed to it, and every notable Perl guru jumped at the opportunity to write for it. TPJ explained critical topics such as regular expressions, databases, and object-oriented programming, and demonstrated Perl's utility for fields as diverse as astronomy, biology, economics, AI, and games. The magazine gave birth to both the Obfuscated Perl Contest and the Perl Poetry contest, and remains a proud and timeless achievement of Perl during one of its most exciting periods of development. "Computer Science and Perl Programming is the first volume of The Best of the…

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List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/26/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 762
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.596
Language: English



Foreword


Preface



Introduction



Beginner Concepts



All About Arrays



Perfect Programming



Precedence



The Birth of a One-Liner



Comparators, Sorting, and Hashes



What Is Truth?



Using Object-Oriented Modules



Unreal Numbers



CryptoContext



References



Perl Heresies



Regular Expressions



Understanding Regular Expressions, Part I



Understanding Regular Expressions, Part II



Understanding Regular Expressions, Part III



Nibbling Strings



How Regexes Work



Computer Science



Infinite Lists



Compression



Memoization



Parsing



Trees and Game Trees



B-Trees



Making Life and Death Decisions with Perl



Information Retrieval



Randomness



Random Number Generators and XS



Programming Techniques



Suffering from Buffering



Scoping



Seven Useful Uses of local



Parsing Command-Line Options



Building a Better Hash with tie



Source Filters



Overloading



Building Objects Out of Arrays



Hiding Objects with Closures



Multiple Dispatch in Perl



Software Development



Using Other Languages from Perl



SWIG



Benchmarking



Building Software with Cons



MakeMaker



Autoloading Perl Code



Debugging and Devel::



Networking



Email with Attachments



Sending Mail Without sendmail



Filtering Mail



Net::Telnet



Microsoft Office



Client-Server Applications



Managing Streaming Audio



A 74-Line IP Telephone



Controlling Modems



Using Usenet from Perl



Transferring Files with FTP



Spidering an FTP Site



DNS Updates with Perl



Databases



DBI



Using DBI with Microsoft Access



DBI Caveats



Beyond Hardcoded Database Applications with DBIx::Recordset



Win32::ODBC



Net::LDAP



Web Databases the Genome Project Way



Spreadsheet::WriteExcel



Internals



How to Improve Perl



Components of the Perl Distribution



Basic Perl Anatomy



Lexical Analysis



Debugging Perl Programs with -D



Microperl


Index


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