Perl is a messy, maddening programming language, the “duct tape of the internet.” But at least you can tell it was made by humans.

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The code examples are written in a nearly self-documenting style. The authors are able to impart their considerable programming and software design experience to the reader, so that one gets an idea ...

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Scripting languages like PHP, Perl, and JavaScript are taking on programming heavyweights like Java and C, and taking many software developers with them. Find out how the toy languages and duct ...