Preface
“You may wonder, why a new edition of Perl by Example?” That’s how the preface for the fourth edition (2007) opened. So here we are again with a fifth edition and the twentieth anniversary since the first edition of Perl by Example, published in 1994. Same question: Why another edition? Perl 5 is still Perl 5.
First of all, a lot has been happening since the release of Perl 5.10. Many of the ideas from Perl 6 have been backported to Perl 5 as we await the official release of Perl 6. And as new features are added, there have been a number of incremental version changes, the latest version number being Perl 5.21. In fact, version 5.10 was what has been called the beginning of “modern Perl.” CPAN has added a number of new modules that have ...
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