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Wicked Cool Perl Scripts
- IT TOPICS:Development, Software
It's not just because I live in New England, where "wicked" means "very" as well as "evil," that I'm a fan of the No Starch Press "Wicked Cool" series of programming books. I like the concept of neat scripts! The latest installment, Wicked Cool Perl Scripts, includes a 75-line script that does currency conversions, including pulling latest conversion rates from xe.com; a 37-line script that searches for dead code in your programs (searching for symbols that are defined but not used) and much more robust coding that graphs regular expressions, among others.
Each script is explained, although a "working knowledge" of Perl is needed to get much out of the discussions. My knowledge of Perl is fairly rudimentary -- there's a good reason I write stories and not software for a living -- but even when the code got a bit too complex for my skill level, it was still interesting to get a basic idea of what the script was doing. I'd recommend the book for Perl fans who like to see what other talented programmers are doing with the language.
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