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TITLE
| | Beginning Perl
| | EDITION
| | 2nd
| | ISBN
| | 1-59059-391-X
| | AUTHOR(S)
| | James Lee, Peter Wainwright, Simon Cozens
| | PUBLISHER
| | Apress
| | PUBLISHED
| | 2004
| | LEVEL(S)
| | 1 and 2 [about levels]
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| SYNOPSIS |
Immensely popular Perl combines the best features of C, key UNIX utilities, and powerful regular expressions. Perl is commonly used for web programming, as well as email and Usenet news filtering. Fast becoming the system administrator's scripting language of choice, Perl is also useful for file and directory manipulation, database access, and a broad range of daily system operator chores.
This second edition emphasizes the cross-platform nature of Perl. Throughout the book, author James Lee promotes Perl as a legible, sensible programming language and dispels the myth that Perl is confusing and obscure. Perfect for the beginning Perl user looking to gain a quick and masterful grasp on the language, this concise and focused book begins with the basics and moves on to more advanced features of Perl, including references, modules, and object-oriented programming.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
| | James Lee | James Lee is founder and CEO of Onsight Inc., an Open Source training and development company. He has developed a number of Web sites using Linux, Apache, MySQL, mod_perl, Embperl, and related technologies. A contributor to Linux Journal, he is the coauthor of Hacking Linux Exposed (McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2001). | | Peter Wainwright | Peter Wainwright is a developer and software engineer specializing in Perl, Apache, and other open-source projects. He got his first taste of programming on a BBC Micro and gained most of his early programming experience writing applications in C on Solaris. He then discovered Linux, shortly followed by Perl and Apache, and has been happily programming there ever since.
When he is not engaged in development or writing books, Wainwright spends much of his free time maintaining the Space Future website at www.spacefuture.com. He is an active proponent of commercial passenger space travel and cofounded Space Future Consulting, an international space tourism consultancy firm. | | Simon Cozens | Simon Cozens has been programming PCs as a freelance contractor since the age of 10. He was introduced to Perl and Linux little over three years ago and has been using both exclusively ever since. He is regularly contracted by Oracle Corporation to develop Perl scripts, including low-administration web server systems and tools to automate adminstration of Oracle databases, web servers and UNIX systems. He has a special interest in documentation and literate programming, and has written a literate programming environment for Perl. His other Perl programs include a set of networking tools, a program to trap unsolicited email, and a series of varied Perl modules. He is currently working on a system to read English descriptions of markup languages and generate translators between them, and also a Perl version of the Te X typesetting utility. Simon lives in Oxford, where he investigates computer processing of Japanese. His interests include music, typesetting and the modern Greek language and culture. |
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