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Perl Hacks: Tips & Tools for Programming Debugging, & Surviving
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 an
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.
Productivity hacks
User interaction
Data munging
Working with modules
Object hacks
Debugging
Developer tricks
Know thy code
Expand your Perl Foo
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