Programming Perl, 4th Edition

Acknowledgments

Here we say nice things in public about our kibbitzers, consultants, and reviewers to make up for all the rude things we said to them in private: Abigail, Matthew Barnett, Piers Cawley, chromatic, Damian Conway, Dave Cross, Joaquin Ferrero, Jeremiah Foster, Jeff Haemer, Yuriy Malenkiy, Nuno Mendes, Steffen Müller, Enrique Nell, David Nicol, Florian Ragwitz, Allison Randal, Chris Roeder, Keith Thompson, Leon Timmermans, Nathan Torkington, Johan Vromans, and Karl Williamson. Any technical errors are our fault, not theirs.

We’d like to express our special gratitude to the entire production crew at O’Reilly Media for their heroic efforts in overcoming uncountably many unexpected and extraordinary challenges to bring this book to press in today’s post-modern publishing world. We wish to thank first and foremost our production editor, Holly Bauer, for her infinite patience in applying thousands of nitpicking changes and additions long after we had turned in the manuscript. We thank Production Manager Dan Fauxsmith for chasing down the rare fonts needed for our many Unicode examples and for keeping the production pipeline flowing smoothly. We thank Production Director Adam Witwer for rolling up his sleeves and dodging the outrageous slings and arrows cast by the Antenna House formatting software used to generate this book’s camera-ready copy. Finally, we thank Publisher Laurie Petrycki not only for supporting all these people in creating the sort of book its authors wanted ...