What will you find here?
We hope we can convey some of the power and fun we get out of working with
Perl and some insights into how Perl developers think.
We hope you’ll find some of these ideas infectious. 😉
The FAQ section
The FAQ section answers frequently asked questions about Perl.
Most of the problems addressed here (and the corresponding code samples)
are very small.
The focus of this section is problem-solving. Solutions
are geared toward the problem at hand, rather than exploring Perl
functionality in elaborate detail.
Examples found in the FAQ section include:
The HOWTO section
The HOWTO section provides more elaborate explanations of how to
use various parts of Perl.
The focus of this section is providing in-depth coverage of a part
of Perl. Solutions are provided that illustrate the element of
Perl under consideration, rather than being written in the language of
the problem itself.
Examples found in the HOWTO section include:
The TUTORIAL section
The TUTORIALs section provides fully worked examples relating to
a class of problem.
Examples found in the TUTORIAL section include:
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What is a meme?
How does this apply to computer languages?
From time to time the hype surrounding the latest ‘hit’ language, (whether
it is COBOL, c, Java or C#) seems overwhelming, but the waxing and waning
of these languages is better understood in terms of memes.
All the community-developed langages like Perl, python and tcl have a
tremendous advantage over languages that are owned by a single corporation
in that their capacity for evolutionary change is much greater.
What is the Perl meme?
It is the idea that there should be “more that one way to do it”, the idea
that a language should make easy jobs easy and hard jobs possible, the
idea that laziness, patience and hubris are virtues
(for a programer).
Perl itself is evolving at a rate unlike any other programming language.
Those of us who use it for a living are excited by how powerful and
expressive the language is and how close to the ‘problem set’ it is.
With the development of Perl 6 well underway, the language is set to
expand and take on even more functionality not found anywhere else. In
our opinion, this makes it the language of choice for solving many of the
software problems of the future.
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Our motivations
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