(Ebook) Professional Perl Programming by Peter Wainwright, Aldo Calpini, Arthur Corliss, Juan Julian Merelo Guervos, Chris Nandor, Aalhad Saraf, Shelley Powers, Simon Cozens, JJ Merelo-Guervos, Aalhad Saraf, Chris Nandor ISBN 9781861004499, 1861004494

(Ebook) Professional Perl Programming by Peter Wainwright, Aldo Calpini, Arthur Corliss, Juan Julian Merelo Guervos, Chris Nandor, Aalhad Saraf, Shelley Powers, Simon Cozens, JJ Merelo-Guervos, Aalhad Saraf, Chris Nandor ISBN 9781861004499, 1861004494

Perl is one of the most important scripting languages in use today. Open source, freely available, portable, versatile, and robust, powerful and easy to use, Perl is the first choice for thousands of professional web developers. But Perl is far more than a scripting language for the web. Supported by a comprehensive standard library and hundreds of third-party libraries, Perl is an increasingly popular choice for application programming.This book provides comprehensive coverage of the Perl language. It covers the fundamentals of data types and file handling through advanced features like regular expressions, object-oriented programming, threads, internationalization, and integrating Perl with the C programming language. The latest version of the language, Perl 5.6, is used throughout, with commentary for those with earlier versions.