Perl Debugged

Preface

“It fills my head with ideas, only I don't really know what they are.”

—Alice in Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

Perlness

In the world of languages, the country of Perl is the great melting pot which welcomes all cultures, religions, and beliefs. “Give me your tired, your poorly-supported programmers, your huddled masses yearning to be free of artificial limitations,” says Perl, and those who land on its shores find an environment where they are no longer hampered by a language designer's whimsical notions of elegant semantics and stifling syntactical purity.

Perl's universal availability and ease-of-use make it the ...