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9780596003128

Games, Diversions & Perl Culture

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    9780596003128

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    0596003129

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-05-01
  • Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Summary

O'Reilly recently acquired exclusive rights to distribute The Perl Journal's complete archive, and our editors have selected the best and most timeless articles for publication in three volumes. The third volume, Games, Diversions & Perl Culture, focuses on entertaining topics that make Perl users such fanatics about the language. Inside, you will find all of the playful features TPJ offered over the years, including the Obfuscated Perl Contests, Perl Quiz Shows, humour articles, and renowned one-line recipes. The book also contains a panoply of quirky applications of Perl, including genetic algorithms, home automation, music programming, and an entire section on natural language processing.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction
1(4)
Part I. Culture
Wherefore Art, Thou?
5(5)
TPJ Cover Art: From Camels to Spam
10(22)
Perl Style
32(6)
Home Automation with MisterHouse
38(11)
Home Automation: The X10 Nitty-Gritty
49(12)
A Day in the Life of comp.lang.perl.misc
61(10)
Part II. Science
Perl-fect Sundials
71(8)
Genetic Algorithms
79(10)
How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project
89(9)
PDL: The Perl Data Language
98(11)
Part III. Language
Chatbot::Eliza
109(6)
Infobots and Purl
115(11)
Speech Synthesis
126(8)
Lazy Text Formatting
134(10)
Perl and MIDI: Simple Languages, Easy Music
144(15)
Braille Contractions and Regular Expressions
159(13)
Hypernyms, Hyponyms, Pertainyms, and Other Word Relationships
172(17)
Parsing Natural Language
189(12)
Word Morphology
201(12)
Smart Matching for Human Names
213(6)
Localizing Your Perl Programs
219(14)
Internationalized Sorting
233(12)
Simulating Typos with Perl
245(12)
Correcting Typos with Perl
257(6)
Learning Japanese with an HTML Filter
263(12)
Part IV. Games and Quizzes
Games in Perl
275(5)
The Prisoner's Dilemma
280(6)
The Rezrov Infocom Game Interpreter
286(20)
Tktk: A Perl/Tk Solitaire Game
306(10)
The First Perl/Internet Quiz Show
316(13)
The Second Perl/Internet Quiz Show
329(17)
The Third Perl/Internet Quiz Show
346(15)
The Fourth Perl/Internet Quiz Show
361(22)
The Perl Whirl Quiz Show
383(12)
The Perl Wizard's Quiz
395(12)
Part V. Poetry
Just Another Perl Haiku
407(18)
Searching for Rhymes with Perl
425(12)
The Perl Poetry Contest
437(8)
Part VI. Politics
Pairwise Voting
445(15)
Secure Internet Voting
460(19)
Perl and Nuclear Weapons Don't Mix
479(8)
Part VII. Obfuscated Perl
The Zeroth Annual Obfuscated Perl Contest
487(7)
The First Obfuscated Perl Contest
494(9)
The Third Obfuscated Perl Contest
503(6)
The Fourth Obfuscated Perl Contest
509(6)
The Fifth Obfuscated Perl Contest
515(7)
One-Liners
522(17)
About the Authors 539(4)
Index 543

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