Y2K Compliance
Lawyers, Liars, and Perl As the clock draws us relentlessly closer toward 2000, the final year of the second millennium, doom sayers everywhere are prophesying unprecedented computer failure in every conceivable sector. Known popularly as the Year 2000 Problem,…
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A Zero Cost Solution
Creating a Task Tracking System For $0 in Licensing Fees, Hardware, and Software Costs CONEXANT (formerly Rockwell Semiconductor Systems) Supply Chain Management Planning and Execution Systems needed a way to keep track of in-house tasks. When associate departments requested…
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How Perl Creates Orders For The Air Force
This article is the first in a series that will provide examples of Perl solving real-world problems, particularly in an organization. If you have your own real-life story to tell, send it to Perl.com Editor. How many times have…
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Perl Builder IDE Debuts
Overview: Perl Builder, by Solutionsoft, is the first integrated development environment (IDE) for Perl. It allows you to develop and test Perl applications in a Windows 95/98/NT environment. Test Equipment: I tested Perl Builder on a machine with a…
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MacPerl Gains Ground
New MacPerl CD-ROM Available Rich Morin (rdm@cfcl.com) of Prime Time Freeware has produced the MacPerl CD-ROM, a distribution of the Perl for the Macintosh along with other Mac tools and documentation. I asked him about the MacPerl community and…
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Perl Support for XML Developing
How to Make Perl The Language of Choice for XML Perl has been the language of choice for anyone doing serious text processing. Now efforts are underway to make Perl the language of choice for those doing “structured” text…
