Games, diversions, and Perl culture best of the Perl journal
The Perl Journal (TPJ) did something most print journals aspire to, but few succeed. Within a remarkable short time, TPJ acquired a cult-following and became the voice of the Perl community. Every serious Perl programmer subscribed to it, and every notable Perl guru jumped at the opportunity to wr...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sebastopol, California :
O'Reilly
[2003]
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Best of the Perl journal series.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628003706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; Preface; Finding Perl Resources; Conventions Used in This Book; Comments and Questions; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I; Wherefore Art, Thou?; Music to My Ears; TPJ Cover Art: From Camels to Spam; TPJ #1: The Camel; TPJ #2: The Pearl; TPJ #3: RSA on Greenbar; TPJ #4: Etch-a-Sketch.; TPJ #5: Commodities; TPJ #6: Scrabble; TPJ #7: Spiderball; TPJ #8: The Coffee Cup Fiasco; TPJ #9: Drummer/Coder Wanted; TPJ #10: The Underwood Typewriter; TPJ #11: The Conspiracy; TPJ #12: The Atari Perl Cartridge; TPJ #13: Dance Remixes; TPJ #14: Outlook Not So Good
- TPJ #15: Braille blocksTPJ #16: e. e. cummings' Gravestone; TPJ #17: Napster; TPJ #18: Spam; TPJ #19: Monopoly Money; TPJ #20: WAP; Perl Style; Background; Existing Measures; The Basic Units; The Tool; Usage; Why This Should Be Hard To Do; The Perl Compiler to the Rescue; Future Directions; Acknowledgments; Home Automation with MisterHouse; HA! Perl?; MisterHouse; Objects in the Home; Talking and Listening; A Smart TV Guide; Whole House CallerID; Squeaky Stairs; You Have Mail; Say What?; Give Your House a Brain; Home Automation: The X10 Nitty-Gritty; Simple Output Commands: The CM17
- The ControlX10::CM17 and ControlX10::CM11 ModulesWhat's in a Command?; Timing Issues; Bidirectional I/O with the CM11; A Few More Considerations; A Day in the Life of comp.lang.perl.misc; A Little History; How the "Day in the Life" Was Done; The Raw Statistics; The Day's Weather Report; Netiquette Nits; The Regulars; The Future of comp.lang.perl.misc; Part II; Perl-fect Sundials; Building Your Own; Genetic Algorithms; The Genetic Code; Assembling an Organism; Survival of the Fittest; Sex and Mutation; The Terrifying Results; Other Applications; Going Further; Other Fitness Functions
- ResourcesHow Perl Saved the HumanGenomeProject; Bioinformatics and Perl; Other Uses for Perl; Problems with Perl; PDL: The Perl Data Language; The perldl Shell; Listing of a Few PDL Functions; Where Are We Now?; Part III; Chatbot::Eliza; How It Works; What Now?; References; Infobots and Purl; IRC; Bots and Infobots; So What?; Are You Spongeworthy?; You Can't Do That in Public!; What Are You Thinking?; Idiot Savant; A Sense of Play; What? We Ordered No Pizzas!; Future Directions; Where to Get It; Acknowledgments; References; Speech Synthesis; Pre-Recorded Sentences
- Lexical Synthesis in One s///The Out-of-Vocabulary Problem: Synthesis in One s///e; Text-to-Phoneme Conversion; More Context: Two Substitutions; What Else?; References; Lazy Text Formatting; Text::Autoformat; Paragraphs; Quoting; Lists; Quotations; Widows; Justification and Sentencing; Future Features; Perl and MIDI: Simple Languages, Easy Music; Hard Things Possible; Approach 1: A Novel Language; Approach 2: An Extensional Language; Easy Things Easy; Behold MIDI::Simple!; "Relative" Notes; Percussion, Uniformity, and noop; The Object-Oriented Interface; Using synch, and Some Actual Music
- Mod, Canons, and Rounds
