This is yet another Perl 6 summary, documenting what has happened over on the perl6-internals (where Parrot, the virtual machine that will run Perl 6, is discussed) and perl6-language (where Perl 6 language design is discussed) mailing lists. Piers is…
It’s easy to take hashes for granted in Perl. They are simple, fast, and they usually "just work," so people never need to know or care about how they are implemented. Sometimes, though, it’s interesting and rewarding to look…
Okay, this is my last summary before I take a couple of week’s holiday away from any form of connectivity. Will I cope? Can my system stand going cold turkey? Can you live without my summaries? Luckily, Leon Brocard…
AxKit is not limited to working with pure XML data. Starting with this article, we’ll work with and around non-XML data by developing an image browser that works with two types of non-XML data: a directory listing built from…
So, another week, another Perl 6 summary. Let’s see if I can get through this one without calling Tim Bunce ‘Tim Bunch’ shall we? Or maybe I should leave a couple of deliberate errors in as a less than…
As with most of my previous articles, this one grew out of a project at my $DAY_JOB. The project du-jour involves large dependency graphs, often containing thousands of nodes and edges. Some of the relationships are automatically generated and…
Happy birthday to me! // Happy birthday to me! // Happy birthday, dear meeeee! // Happy birthday to me! And, with a single breech of copyright, Piers was free. The production of this summary was delayed by my turning…
You’ve rolled out an application and it produces mysterious, sporadic errors? That’s pretty common, even if fairly well-tested applications are exposed to real-world data. How can you track down when and where exactly your problem occurs? What kind of user…
It seems every month or so, there’s a new Perl and CGI book out; huge thick volumes promising to teach you all you need to know about programming for the Web in 24 hours. They all start with “Hello…
Well, what a week it’s been, eh, people? Larry’s been telling the Slashdot crowd about quantum God and big knobs, there’s been a call for Perl 6 programmers on Perlmonks (http://makeashorterlink.com/), and the Octarine parrot took flight. So, let’s…
Andy Duncan is the co-author of Perl for Oracle DBAs. My coauthor, Jared Still, and I had the task of writing a book, Perl for Oracle DBAs, about two of our favorite subjects, Perl and Oracle. Our goal was…
Well, it has been a week. Damian came to London and made our heads spin; perl6-language erupted in a flurry of interesting, high signal/noise threads; Parrot reached its 0.0.8 release; Larry made many of his wonderfully unexpected but obviously…
There are many ways to filter your e-mail with Perl. Two of the more popular and interesting ways are to use PerlMx or Mail::Audit. I took a long look at both, and this is what I thought of them….
Editor’s note: this document is out of date and remains here for historic interest. See Synopsis 5 for the current design information. Exegesis 5 What’s the diff? Starting gently Lay it out for me Interpolate ye not … The…
Sean M. Burke is the author of Perl & LWP Introduction LWP (short for “Library for WWW in Perl”) is a popular group of Perl modules for accessing data on the Web. Like most Perl module-distributions, each of LWP’s component modules…
The story so far… Larry, Tom, Randal, Damian, Jon, Chip, Gnat, Ziggy, Dick and the rest of the gang were chatting with all the other cool Perl kids about where Perl was and should be going. Then Jon threw a…
/* This is a Perl comment */ Commenting in Perl “But what?”, I hear you think, “Perl doesn’t have multi-line comments!” That’s true. Perl doesn’t have multiline comments. But why is that? What is wrong with them? Mostly, it…
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little…
In your time as a Perl programmer, it becomes almost inevitable that at some point you will have to manage in-memory tree structures of some sort. When you do this, it becomes important to be aware of how Perl…
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Perl.com and the authors make no representations with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of all work on this website and specifically disclaim all warranties, including without limitation warranties of fitness for a particular purpose. The information published on this website may not be suitable for every situation. All work on this website is provided with the understanding that Perl.com and the authors are not engaged in rendering professional services. Neither Perl.com nor the authors shall be liable for damages arising herefrom.
