Pro Perl - (Expert's Voice in Open Source) by Peter Wainwright (Paperback)

About the Book

This title is suitable for any experienced developer who wants to reap more from this language. The book pays particularly close attention to running Perl in multiple environments and installing and running Perl on UNIX, Windows, and Mac.

Book Synopsis

Pro Perl is one of the most important and powerful languages available today, and Pro Perl offers an in-depth guide to exploiting some of its best features. This title is suitable for any experienced developer who wants to reap more from this language.

About the Author

Peter Wainwright is a developer and software engineer specializing in Perl, Apache, and other open-source projects. He got his first taste of programming on a BBC Micro and gained most of his early programming experience writing applications in C on Solaris. He then discovered Linux, shortly followed by Perl and Apache, and has been happily programming there ever since. When he is not engaged in development or writing books, Wainwright spends much of his free time maintaining the Space Future website at www.spacefuture.com. He is an active proponent of commercial passenger space travel and cofounded Space Future Consulting, an international space tourism consultancy firm.