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Jumbo shrimp, military intelligence - Visual Perl? ActiveState built its reputation by bringing Perl to the Windows platform, thereby extending the reach of Perl and the size and nature of the Perl community. However, regardless of the Windows port,…
One of the best things about Parrot is that it’s not just for Perl implementors. Parrot 0.0.3 came with support for extensible data types that can be used to implement the types used in your favorite language. The mechanism…
Introduction No matter how much we try to convince people that Perl is a multi-purpose programming language, we’d be deluding ourselves if we didn’t admit that the majority of programmers first come into contact with Perl through their experience with…
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Editor’s Note: this Apocalypse is out of date and remains here for historic reasons. See Synopsis 04 for the latest information. Table of Contents Accepted RFCs RFC 022: Control flow: Builtin switch statement Table 1: Matching a switch value…
In this Perl/Tk article, I’ll discuss balloon help, photos and widget subclassing. Help balloons can be attached to widgets, menu items, and, as we’ll see here, individual canvas items. Subclassing a Perl/Tk widget is also known as creating a…
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Bioinformatics, the use of computers in biology research, has been increasing in importance during the past decade as the Human Genome Project went from its beginning to the announcement last year of a “draft” of the complete sequence of…
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Introduction Active Directory of Windows 2000’s directory service, allowing organizations to keep and share information about networked resources and users. One significant feature of the Active Directory is that it is LDAP-compliant. Unfortunately, it is still very difficult to…
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As it happens, no matter how much I write about Perl/Tk, there’s always something left unsaid. A case in point is the topic of drag and drop, which didn’t make it into our book, Mastering Perl/Tk. This article describes…
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Does your code work? How do you know that? Testing software with Perl is easier than you think, and it’ll give you confidence that you’ve done the right thing.
If you’ve ever had to do user support, then you’ll be familiar with the following scenario: A question comes in from a user, and you write an e-mail reply. However, by the time you’ve hit “send,” another member of…
What happens if you get a bunch of academic computer scientists and implementors of languages such as Perl, Python, Smalltalk and Curl, and lock them into a room for a day? Bringing together the academic and commercial sides of…
The Perl programming language is popular with biologists because of its practicality. In my book, Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics, I demonstrate how many of the things biologists want to write programs for are readily-even enjoyably-accomplished with Perl. My book…
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