How to parse simple text files with Perl
Thursday February 28, 2008
Big or small, Perl benchmarks great when it comes to digging through text. As an example, lets build a little program that opens up a tab separated data file, and ... Read More
Do Not Learn Perl
Tuesday February 26, 2008
Tongue firmly in cheek, Andrew Kirkpatrick goes over some of the reasons Perl has a special place in the wide world of programming languages. This is, in fact, a list ... Read More
Automated Testing with Perl
Saturday February 9, 2008
This is a nice, but short article on how to automate web site testing using the perl modules LWP, WWW::Mechanize, and Test::More. Although it lacks any really good examples, it's ... Read More
Lingua::Romana::Perligata -- Perl for the XXI-imum Century
Wednesday February 6, 2008
File this away in the cool, but not entirely practical world of Perl programming. The CPAN module Lingua::Romana::Perligata lets you write your perl scripts in Latin. The most amazing part ... Read More
Natural Language Principles in Perl
Sunday February 3, 2008
This is a very interesting paper by Larry Wall on designing programming languages to work naturally. It's the basis for Perl, and to a certain extent, the other 'scripting' languages ... Read More
Creating graphs with Perl and GIFgraph
Friday February 1, 2008
Here's a small set of programs that takes output from the *nix sar command and creates some pretty graphs using the GIFgraph Perl module. One thing to note is that ... Read More