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Book SynopsisThis title focuses on entertaining topics that make Perl users such fanatics about the language. It contains quirky applications of Perl, including genetic algorithms, home automation, music programming and much more.
Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction Part I. Culture 2. Wherefore Art, Thou? 3. TPJ Cover Art: From Camels to Spam 4. Perl Style 5. Home Automation with MisterHouse 6. Home Automation: The X10 Nitty-Gritty 7. A Day in the Life of comp.lang.perl.misc Part II. Science 8. Perl-fect Sundials 9. Genetic Algorithms 10. How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project 11. PDL: The Perl Data Language Part III. Language 12. Chatbot::Eliza 13. Infobots and Purl 14. Speech Synthesis 15. Lazy Text Formatting 16. Perl and MIDI: Simple Languages, Easy Music 17. Braille Contractions and Regular Expressions 18. Hypernyms, Hyponyms, Pertainyms, and Other Word Relationships 19. Parsing Natural Language 20. Word Morphology 21. Smart Matching for Human Names 22. Localizing Your Perl Programs 23. Internationalized Sorting 24. Simulating Typos with Perl 25. Correcting Typos with Perl 26. Learning Japanese with an HTML Filter Part IV. Games and Quizzes 27. Games in Perl 28. The Prisoner's Dilemma 29. The Rezrov Infocom Game Interpreter 30. Tktk: A Perl/Tk Solitaire Game 31. The First Perl/Internet Quiz Show 32. The Second Perl/Internet Quiz Show 33. The Third Perl/Internet Quiz Show 34. The Fourth Perl/Internet Quiz Show 35. The Perl Whirl Quiz Show 36. The Perl Wizard's Quiz Part V. Poetry 37. Just Another Perl Haiku 38. Searching for Rhymes with Perl 39. The Perl Poetry Contest Part VI. Politics 40. Pairwise Voting 41. Secure Internet Voting 42. Perl and Nuclear Weapons Don't Mix Part VII. Obfuscated Perl 43. The Zeroth Annual Obfuscated Perl Contest 44. The First Obfuscated Perl Contest 45. The Third Obfuscated Perl Contest 46. The Fourth Obfuscated Perl Contest 47. The Fifth Obfuscated Perl Contest 48. One-Liners About the Authors Index
