Advanced Perl Programming by Simon Cozens, Allison Randal (Editor), Tatiana Diaz (Editor)
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(Paperback - 2nd Edition)
- Pub. Date: June 2005
- 281pp
- Sales Rank: 245,470
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- Pub. Date: June 2005
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
- Format: Paperback, 281pp
- Sales Rank: 245,470
- ISBN-13: 9780596004569
- ISBN: 0596004567
- Edition Number: 2
- Edition Description: 2nd Edition
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With a worldwide community of users and more than a million dedicated programmers, Perl has proven to be the most effective language for the latest trends in computing and business.
Every programmer must keep up with the latest tools and techniques. This updated version of "Advanced Perl Programming" from O'Reilly gives you the essential knowledge of the modern Perl programmer. Whatever your current level of Perl expertise, this book will help you push your skills to the next level and become a more accomplished programmer.
O'Reilly's most high-level Perl tutorial to date, "Advanced Perl Programming," Second Edition teaches you all the complex techniques for production-ready Perl programs. This completely updated guide clearly explains concepts such as introspection, overriding built-ins, extending Perl's object-oriented model, and testing your code for greater stability.
Other topics include:
Complex data structures
Parsing
Templating toolkits
Working with natural language data
Unicode
Interaction with C and other languages
In addition, this guide demystifies once complex topics like object-relational mapping and event-based development-arming you with everything you need to completely upgrade your skills.
Praise for the Second Edition:
"Sometimes the biggest hurdle to problem solving isn't the subject itself but rather the sheer number of modules Perl provides. "Advanced Perl Programming" walks you through Perl's TMTOWTDI ("There's More Than One Way To Do It") forest, explaining and comparing the best modules for each task so you can intelligently apply them in a variety of situations." --Rocco Caputo, lead developer of POE
"Ithas beensaid that sufficiently advanced Perl code is indistinguishable from magic. This book of spells goes a long way to unlocking those secrets. It has the power to transform the most humble programmer into a Perl wizard." --Andy Wardley
"The information here isn't theoretical. It presents tools and techniques for solving real problems cleanly and elegantly." --Curtis 'Ovid' Poe
" "Advanced Perl Programming" collects hard-earned knowledge from some of the best programmers in the Perl community, and explains it in a way that even novices can apply immediately." --chromatic, Editor of Perl.com
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Tim Jenness is employed as a software engineer for two British telescopes in Hawaii--the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope. He has 10 modules on CPAN, including two that are distributed as part of the core Perl distribution (File:: Temp and Pod:: LateX). He has been a Perl developer for seven years and has been contributing to general Perl development on the perl5-porters list for two years. He has also been a contributor to the Perl Data Language from early in its development. He lives in Hilo, Hawaii. Simon Cozens works as a programmer for Oxford University Computing Services as part of the Unix team. He has been a Perl developer for six years and has contributed to perl5-porters for three. He takes a particular interest in documentation, specifically writing documentation and training materials to help new contributors. Cozens was also the release manager for the first four releases of the Perl 6 runtime engine, Parrot.
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August 20, 2005: The Perl world has changed drastically in the last five years! Author Simon Cozens has done an outstanding job of keeping up with those changes in this 2nd edition of the book by taking you through some of the most important Perl techniques and resources available at the moment. Cozens begins by introducing a few common tricks advanced Perl programmers use with examples from popular Perl modules. Next, the author covers parsing irregular or unstructured data with Parse::RecDescent and Parse::Yapp, plus parsing HTML and XML. Then, he details some of the most common tools for templating and when to use them, including formats, Text::Template, HTML::Template, HTML::Mason, and the Template Toolkit. The author continues by explaining various ways to efficiently store and retrieve complex data using objects--a concept commonly called object-relational mapping. In addition, the author next shows you some of the ways Perl can manipulate natural language data: inflections, conversions, parsing, extraction, and Bayesian analysis. He also reviews some of the problems and solutions to make the most of Perl's Unicode support. The author next looks at the popular Perl event-based environment for task scheduling, multitasking, and non-blocking I/O code. Next, the author covers the essentials of testing your code. Then, he talks about how to extend Perl by writing code in other languages, using the Inline::* modules. Finally, he closes on a lighter note with a few recreational use of Perl. With the preceding in mind, the author has done an excellent job of making sure that you will have a good idea of how to use what's available in Perl and, how you can save yourself time and effort by using Perl and the resources available to get the job done. At the end of the day, you'll be ready to use and integrate whatever developments come down the line.
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