A year ago, at Yet Another Perl Conference North America 19100, both Perl-the-language and Perl-the-community seemed to be headed for trouble. Longtime Perl hackers spoke openly with concern at the apparent stagnation of Perl 5 development, and how the community…
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The Basics Parse::RecDescent is a combination compiler and interpreter. The language it uses can be thought of roughly as a macro language like CPP’s, but the macros take no parameters. This may seem limiting, but the technique is very…
A recent article here, Turning the Tides of Perl’s Attitude Toward Beginners," described places on the Internet where beginners could get help without fear of being flamed mercilessly by insensitive, elitist Perl experts. Experienced programmers, in short, must be more…
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Using CGI::Application -> Why CGI::Application? Table of Contents Why CGI::Application? Understanding CGI::Application Putting It All Together Conclusions & Advanced Concepts: Where to Go From Here Resources The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) may be viewed by some as “less than glamorous”,…
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Turning the Tide on Perl’s Attitude Toward Beginners -> The Perl community has held tight to a “zero tolerance” policy for beginners. The transition to a more accepting, responsible community has begun. The past is behind us and the future…
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Michael Schwern will be speaking at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in San Diego, CA, July 23-27, 2001. Excuse me, I’m going to ramble a bit about traffic lights as they relate to language design to see whether something…
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Exegesis 2 -> Editor’s note: this document is out of date and remains here for historic interest. See Synopsis 2 for the current design information. exegesis: n. an interpretation and explanation of a text, esp. Holy Writ This is the…
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Apocalypse 2 -> Editor’s Note: this Apocalypse is out of date and remains here for histor ic reasons. See Syn opsis 02 for the latest information. Perl 6 Apocalypse The rest of the “Apocalypse” series is available on Larry…
Regular Expressions are arguably one of Perl’s most useful and powerful tools. The ability to match complex strings is one of the things that makes Perl the effective “Practical Extraction and Reporting Language” that it is. The regular expression…
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