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TITLE
| | Perl Resource Kit - UNIX Edition
| | EDITION
| | 1st
| | ISBN
| | 1-56592-370-7
| | AUTHOR(S)
| | Brian Jepson, David Futato, Ellen Siever, Nathan Patwardhan
| | PUBLISHER
| | O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
| | PUBLISHED
| | 1997
| | LEVEL(S)
| | 4 and 5 [about levels]
| | This book is no longer in print
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| SYNOPSIS |
Perl Resource Kit-UNIX Edition is designed for all Perl users: webmasters, programmers and system administrators, in settings ranging from large, corporate IS departments to small and medium-sized businesses. With the explosive growth of the World Wide Web, the widespread use of Perl has grown especially rapidly among webmasters and web designers.
This Perl Resource Kit will be followed early in 1998 by the Win32 Perl Resource Kit (formerly Perl Resource Kit-NT Edition), which will include a different set of documentation and software tools appropriate for the Windows audience.
"With the Perl Resource Kits, we're sending a message to the business community: Perl is a serious business tool that is mature, stable, and growing rapidly," says Gina Blaber, Director of O'Reilly's Software Products Group. "O'Reilly is supporting Perl far beyond our books. Last year, we hired Larry Wall, the creator of Perl, to work full-time in development with our company. This past summer, we sponsored the first Perl conference, which was a great success. Then we became the hosts for www.perl.com, the primary Web site of the Perl community. Perl is definitely a language you can invest in." O'Reilly has long been the primary publisher of Perl-related books, starting with best-seller "Programming Perl" by Larry Wall, Randal Schwartz and Tom Christiansen.
The Perl Resource Kit-UNIX CD features a Java/Perl interface, written for the Kit by Larry Wall, creator of Perl and Senior Developer at O'Reilly. For the first time, using this new Java/Perl tool, programmers can write Java classes with Perl implementations, so they can use the strengths of Java in the Perl programming environment.
The Kit's 1800 pages of documentation include "Programming With Perl Modules," designed for Perl beginners by Nate Patwardhan with Clay Irving. Modules, which are reusable units of Perl code, are the cornerstone of much of the new growth in Perl. Written by diverse members of the Perl/freeware community, many existing modules will see significant boosts in performance when Perl 5.005 is released in Q4,'97.
The Kit's documentation also includes "Perl Module Reference," compiled and edited by Ellen Siever and David Futato. This comprehensive two-volume reference documents, for the first time, more than 600 of the most widely-used Perl modules, such as:
* the mod_perl modules, created by Doug MacEachern, which lets programmers use embedded Perl within the freeware Apache server. This is the most popular server currently in use, with 44.74% of the market, according to the Netcraft server survey
(http://www.netcraft.com/survey/).
* the CGI library, created by Lincoln Stein, which lets programmers use Perl with Common Gateway Interface (CGI), the most widely-used scripting language underlying today's dynamic Web sites.
The Kit also includes the "Perl Utilities Guide," which describes Perl software tools contained in the Kit, by Brian Jepson; and "The Perl Journal" (Fall, '97 issue), a quarterly magazine devoted to the Perl language.
Software tools on the Kit's CD also include a snapshot of the freeware Perl archives on Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN), with an Install program, a Search tool, and a web-aware interface for identifying more recent online CPAN tools. Most of the contents of the CD can be used on any UNIX platform. The Install program installs Perl modules from the CD on the Solaris and Linux platforms.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
| | Brian Jepson | Brian Jepson maintains a keen focus on the sparks that fly where two cutting edges meet. He has published print and online articles that examine the intersection of Open Source and Windows (particularly .NET). Mac OS X is one such intersection, combining a solid Unix core with the pioneering Apple user interface. Brian's prior experience developing applications in Unix and Linux give him an appreciation of the target audience's point of view. His thorough explorations of NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X -- conducted over the last few years -- kept him oriented as he developed this book. Brian is also an O'Reilly editor and co-author of Mac OS X for Unix Geeks. | | Ellen Siever | Ellen Siever co-authored Perl in a Nutshell, 1st Edition and the Perl Modules Reference for the Unix edition of the Perl Resource Kit. She is also co-author of Linux in a Nutshell. Ellen was a programmer for many years, until she decided that writing about computers was more fun. |
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