The Perl Journal ISSUE #13 i(Vol. 4, Mo. 1)

The Perl Journal ISSUE #13 i(Vol. 4, Mo. 1)

Perl News
Nandor, Chris
What's new in the Perl Community
p. 6

Five Quick Hacks: Downloading Web pages
Orwant, Jon; Gruhl, Dan
Gabbing web page contents without a browser
p. 10

The Perl Scripts Archive
Starsinic, Kurt
The VCPOAN now stores scripts as well a modules
p. 14

Web Databases The Genome Project Way
Stein, Lincoln D.
A free database system tailored for the web
p. 16

XML
Eisenzopf, Jonathan
The sucessor of HTML
p. 26

Bricolage: Memoization
Dominus, Mark-Jason
Speeding up Perl functions
p. 30

Review: The O'Reilly Perl resource Kit
p. 38

Localizing Your Perl Programs
Burke, Sean M.; Lachler Jordan
Adaptig programs for languages other than English
p. 40

Building Your Own Perl for Win32
Patwardhan, Nathan
How tioc ompile and install your own Perl from the source code
p. 48

The rerov Infocom Game Interpreter
Edmonson, Micke
A maximally portable game engine, with a few back doors
p. 52

Perl and MIDI: Simple Langages, Easy Music
Burke, Sean M.
How a little language for generating music was created
p. 61

Perl Heresies: Building Objects Out Of Arrays
Bacon, Greg
Most people build objects out of hashes, Here's why you shouldn't
p. 68

Controlling Modems with Win32::SerialPort
Birthsiel, Bill
Let your programs talks any serial device
p. 72

Constest: The solitaire 500
Nicol, David
Speed matters. How fast can your program play a simple card game
p. 76


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