In its first five years of existence, The Perl Journal ran 247 articles
by over 120 authors. Every serious Perl programmer subscribed to it, and
every notable Perl guru jumped at the opportunity to write for it. TPJ
explained critical topics such as regular expressions, databases, and
object-oriented programming, and demonstrated Perl's utility for fields
as diverse as astronomy, biology, economics, AI, and games. The magazine
gave birth to both the Obfuscated Perl Contest and the Perl Poetry
contest, and remains a proud and timeless achievement of Perl during one
of its most exciting periods of development.Computer Science and Perl
Programming is the first volume of The Best of the Perl Journal,
compiled and re-edited by the original editor and publisher of The Perl
Journal, Jon Orwant. In this series, we've taken the very best (and
still relevant) articles published in TPJ over its 5 years of
publication and immortalized them into three volumes. This volume has 70
articles devoted to hard-core computer science, advanced programming
techniques, and the underlying mechanics of Perl.Here's a sample of what
you'll find inside:
- Jeffrey Friedl on Understanding Regexes
- Mark Jason Dominus on optimizing your Perl programs with Memoization
- Damian Conway on Parsing
- Tim Meadowcroft on integrating Perl with Microsoft Office
- Larry Wall on the culture of Perl
Written by 41 of the most prominent and prolific members of the
closely-knit Perl community, this anthology does what no other book can,
giving unique insight into the real-life applications and powerful
techniques made possible by Perl.Other books tell you how to use Perl,
but this book goes far beyond that: it shows you not only how to use
Perl, but what you could use Perl for. This is more than just The Best
of the Perl Journal -- in many ways, this is the best of Perl.
