Advanced Perl Programming

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What Must I Know?

To use Perl effectively in an application, you must be conversant with three aspects:

• The language syntax and idioms afforded by the language.

• The Perl interpreter for writing C extensions for your Perl scripts or embedding the Perl interpreter in your C/C++ applications.

• Technology issues such as networking, user interfaces, the Web, and persistence.

Figure 1 shows a map of the topics dealt with in this book. Each major aspect listed above is further classified. The rest of this section presents a small blurb about each topic and the corresponding chapter where the subject is detailed. The discussion is arranged by topic rather than by the sequence in which the chapters appear.

Figure 1: Classification of topics covered in this book





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What Must I Know? To use Perl effectively in an application, you must be conversant with three aspects: • The language syntax and idioms afforded by the language. • The Perl interpreter for writing C extensions for your Perl scripts or embedding the Perl interpreter in your C/C++ applications. • Technology issues such as networking, user interfaces, the Web, and persistence. Figure 1 shows a map of the topics dealt with in this book. Each major aspect listed above is further classified. The rest of this section presents a small blurb about each topic and the corresponding chapter where the subject is detailed. The discussion is arranged by topic rather than by the sequence in which the chapters appear. Figure 1: Classification of topics covered in this book