Games, Diversions, and Perl Culture: Best of the Perl Journal (Paperback)

Preface

1. Introduction


Part I. Culture

2. Wherefore Art, Thou?

3. TPJ Cover Art: From Camels to Spam

4. Perl Style

5. Home Automation with MisterHouse

6. Home Automation: The X10 Nitty-Gritty

7. A Day in the Life of comp.lang.perl.misc


Part II. Science

8. Perl-fect Sundials

9. Genetic Algorithms

10. How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project

11. PDL: The Perl Data Language


Part III. Language

12. Chatbot::Eliza

13. Infobots and Purl

14. Speech Synthesis

15. Lazy Text Formatting

16. Perl and MIDI: Simple Languages, Easy Music

17. Braille Contractions and Regular Expressions

18. Hypernyms, Hyponyms, Pertainyms, and Other Word Relationships

19. Parsing Natural Language

20. Word Morphology

21. Smart Matching for Human Names

22. Localizing Your Perl Programs

23. Internationalized Sorting

24. Simulating Typos with Perl

25. Correcting Typos with Perl

26. Learning Japanese with an HTML Filter


Part IV. Games and Quizzes

27. Games in Perl

28. The Prisoner's Dilemma

29. The Rezrov Infocom Game Interpreter

30. Tktk: A Perl/Tk Solitaire Game

31. The First Perl/Internet Quiz Show

32. The Second Perl/Internet Quiz Show

33. The Third Perl/Internet Quiz Show

34. The Fourth Perl/Internet Quiz Show

35. The Perl Whirl Quiz Show

36. The Perl Wizard's Quiz


Part V. Poetry

37. Just Another Perl Haiku

38. Searching for Rhymes with Perl

39. The Perl Poetry Contest


Part VI. Politics

40. Pairwise Voting

41. Secure Internet Voting

42. Perl and Nuclear Weapons Don't Mix


Part VII. Obfuscated Perl

43. The Zeroth Annual Obfuscated Perl Contest

44. The First Obfuscated Perl Contest

45. The Third Obfuscated Perl Contest

46. The Fourth Obfuscated Perl Contest

47. The Fifth Obfuscated Perl Contest

48. One-Liners

About the Authors

Index