Games, diversions, and Perl culture : best of the Perl journal / edited by Jon Orwant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orwant, Jon, author.

Contributor:

Orwant, Jon, editor.

Series:

Best of the Perl journal series.

The best of the Perl journal series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perl (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (588 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Games, diversions & Perl culture

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly, [2003]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Perl Journal (TPJ) did something most print journals aspire to, but few succeed. Within a remarkable short time, TPJ acquired a cult-following and became the voice of the Perl community. Every serious Perl programmer subscribed to it, and every notable Perl guru jumped at the opportunity to write for it. Back issues were swapped like trading cards. No longer in print format, TPJ remains the quintessential spirit of Perl--a publication for and by Perl programmers who see fun and beauty in an admittedly quirky little language. Games, Diversions,

Contents:

Table of Contents; Preface; Finding Perl Resources; Conventions Used in This Book; Comments and Questions; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I; Wherefore Art, Thou?; Music to My Ears; TPJ Cover Art: From Camels to Spam; TPJ #1: The Camel; TPJ #2: The Pearl; TPJ #3: RSA on Greenbar; TPJ #4: Etch-a-Sketch.; TPJ #5: Commodities; TPJ #6: Scrabble; TPJ #7: Spiderball; TPJ #8: The Coffee Cup Fiasco; TPJ #9: Drummer/Coder Wanted; TPJ #10: The Underwood Typewriter; TPJ #11: The Conspiracy; TPJ #12: The Atari Perl Cartridge; TPJ #13: Dance Remixes; TPJ #14: Outlook Not So Good

TPJ #15: Braille blocksTPJ #16: e. e. cummings' Gravestone; TPJ #17: Napster; TPJ #18: Spam; TPJ #19: Monopoly Money; TPJ #20: WAP; Perl Style; Background; Existing Measures; The Basic Units; The Tool; Usage; Why This Should Be Hard To Do; The Perl Compiler to the Rescue; Future Directions; Acknowledgments; Home Automation with MisterHouse; HA! Perl?; MisterHouse; Objects in the Home; Talking and Listening; A Smart TV Guide; Whole House CallerID; Squeaky Stairs; You Have Mail; Say What?; Give Your House a Brain; Home Automation: The X10 Nitty-Gritty; Simple Output Commands: The CM17

The ControlX10::CM17 and ControlX10::CM11 ModulesWhat's in a Command?; Timing Issues; Bidirectional I/O with the CM11; A Few More Considerations; A Day in the Life of comp.lang.perl.misc; A Little History; How the "Day in the Life" Was Done; The Raw Statistics; The Day's Weather Report; Netiquette Nits; The Regulars; The Future of comp.lang.perl.misc; Part II; Perl-fect Sundials; Building Your Own; Genetic Algorithms; The Genetic Code; Assembling an Organism; Survival of the Fittest; Sex and Mutation; The Terrifying Results; Other Applications; Going Further; Other Fitness Functions

ResourcesHow Perl Saved the HumanGenomeProject; Bioinformatics and Perl; Other Uses for Perl; Problems with Perl; PDL: The Perl Data Language; The perldl Shell; Listing of a Few PDL Functions; Where Are We Now?; Part III; Chatbot::Eliza; How It Works; What Now?; References; Infobots and Purl; IRC; Bots and Infobots; So What?; Are You Spongeworthy?; You Can't Do That in Public!; What Are You Thinking?; Idiot Savant; A Sense of Play; What? We Ordered No Pizzas!; Future Directions; Where to Get It; Acknowledgments; References; Speech Synthesis; Pre-Recorded Sentences

Lexical Synthesis in One s///The Out-of-Vocabulary Problem: Synthesis in One s///e; Text-to-Phoneme Conversion; More Context: Two Substitutions; What Else?; References; Lazy Text Formatting; Text::Autoformat; Paragraphs; Quoting; Lists; Quotations; Widows; Justification and Sentencing; Future Features; Perl and MIDI: Simple Languages, Easy Music; Hard Things Possible; Approach 1: A Novel Language; Approach 2: An Extensional Language; Easy Things Easy; Behold MIDI::Simple!; "Relative" Notes; Percussion, Uniformity, and noop; The Object-Oriented Interface; Using synch, and Some Actual Music

Mod, Canons, and Rounds

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781449397784

1449397786

9781449397913

1449397913

OCLC:

780425320