Sep 19, 2000 by Simon Cozens

Table of Contents •Design Principles •So, uh, what is it? •Where did it get? •What else can be done? •What can’t be done? •Structure of a Sapphire •The future of Sapphire •Reflections through a Sapphire Naming languages after stones…

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Jul 11, 2000 by Simon Cozens

There are a huge number of books out there about Perl. A quick search on Amazon reveals 362 books; allowing for false positives and books where Perl is a minor part, I’d conservatively estimate there to be over 250 books…

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Jun 27, 2000 by Simon Cozens

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Apr 18, 2000 by Simon Cozens

Table of Contents   • Unicode - Perl goes    international!   • Better Building   • Improved Compiler   • Version Tuples   • Lexical Warnings   • Lvaluable Subroutines   • Weak References   • POSIX Character    Classes   • Miscellaneous Bits `Darn it, who spiked my coffee with water?!’…

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Feb 23, 2000 by Simon Cozens

Beginning Perl : Ten Perl Myths -> Introduction Table of Contents •Perl is hard •Perl looks like line noise •Perl is hard because it has regexps •Perl is hard because it has references •Perl is just for Unix •Perl…

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