Beginning Perl, Second Edition: From Novice to Professional - Softcover

Lee, James

 
9781590593912: Beginning Perl, Second Edition: From Novice to Professional

Synopsis

Immensely popular Perl combines the best features of C, key UNIX utilities, and powerful regular expressions. Perl is commonly used for web programming, as well as e-mail and Usenet news filtering. Fast becoming the system administrator's scripting language of choice, Perl is also useful for file and directory manipulation, database access, and a broad range of daily system operator chores. This second edition dispels the image of Perl as a sometimes confusing, obscure language, and instead, promotes Perl as a legible, sensible programming language. Concise and focused, this book reaches out to users of all experience levels, and covers basic to advanced aspects of Perl, Apache modPerl, and Perlscript (for use with Wintel systems). This book also stresses the cross-platform nature of Perl.

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About the Author

James Lee is a hacker and open-source advocate, based in Illinois. He holds a Masters degree from Northwestern University-and he can often be seen rooting for the Wildcats during football season. As founder of Onsight, Lee has worked as a programmer, trainer, manager, writer, and open-source advocate. Lee co-authored the recently published Hacking Linux Exposed, Second Edition, as well as Open Source Web Development with LAMP. He enjoys hacking Perl, and has written many articles on Perl for the Linux Journal. Lee also enjoys developing software for the web, reading, traveling, and most of all-playing with his kids-who are too young to know why Dad's favorite animals are penguins and camels.

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