Games, Diversions, and Perl Culture

The Perl Journal (TPJ) did something most print journals aspire to, but few succeed. Within a remarkable short time, TPJ acquired a cult-following and became the voice of the Perl community. Every serious Perl programmer subscribed to it, and every notable Perl guru jumped at the opportunity to write for it. Back issues were swapped like trading cards. No longer in print format, TPJ remains the quintessential spirit of Perl--a publication for and by Perl programmers who see fun and beauty in an admittedly quirky little language. Games, Diversions, and Perl Culture is the third volume of The Best of the Perl Journal, compiled and re-edited by the original editor and publisher of The Perl Journal, Jon Orwant. In this series, we've taken the very best (and still relevant) articles published in TPJ over its 5 years of publication and immortalized them into three volumes. The 47 articles included in this volume are simply some of the best Perl articles ever written on the subjects of games, diversions, and the unique culture of this close-knit community, by some of the best Perl authors and coders. Games, Diversions & Perl Culture focuses on entertaining topics that make Perl users such fanatics about the language. You'll find all of the playful features TPJ offered over the years, including the Obfuscated Perl Contests, Perl Quiz Shows, humor articles, and renowned one-line recipes. The book also contains a panoply of quirky applications of Perl, including genetic algorithms, home automation, music programming, and an entire section on natural language processing. This anthology is an unmatched compendium of Perl lore.

Autorentext
Jon Orwant founded The Perl Journal and received the White Camel lifetime achievement award for contributions to Perl in 2004. He's Engineering Manager at Google, where he leads Patent Search, visualizations, and digital humanities teams. For most of his tenure at Google, Jon worked on Book Search, and he developed the widely used Google Books Ngram Viewer. Prior to Google, he was CTO of O'Reilly, Director of Research at France Telecom, and a Lecturer at MIT. Orwant received his doctorate from MIT's Electronic Publishing Group in 1999.

Zusammenfassung
This title focuses on entertaining topics that make Perl users such fanatics about the language. It contains quirky applications of Perl, including genetic algorithms, home automation, music programming and much more.

Inhalt
Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Part I: Culture Chapter 2: Wherefore Art, Thou? Chapter 3: TPJ Cover Art: From Camels to Spam Chapter 4: Perl Style Chapter 5: Home Automation with MisterHouse Chapter 6: Home Automation: The X10 Nitty-Gritty Chapter 7: A Day in the Life of comp.lang.perl.misc Part II: Science Chapter 8: Perl-fect Sundials Chapter 9: Genetic Algorithms Chapter 10: How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project Chapter 11: PDL: The Perl Data Language Part III: Language Chapter 12: Chatbot::Eliza Chapter 13: Infobots and Purl Chapter 14: Speech Synthesis Chapter 15: Lazy Text Formatting Chapter 16: Perl and MIDI: Simple Languages, Easy Music Chapter 17: Braille Contractions and Regular Expressions Chapter 18: Hypernyms, Hyponyms, Pertainyms, and Other Word Relationships Chapter 19: Parsing Natural Language Chapter 20: Word Morphology Chapter 21: Smart Matching for Human Names Chapter 22: Localizing Your Perl Programs Chapter 23: Internationalized Sorting Chapter 24: Simulating Typos with Perl Chapter 25: Correcting Typos with Perl Chapter 26: Learning Japanese with an HTML Filter Part IV: Games and Quizzes Chapter 27: Games in Perl Chapter 28: The Prisoner's Dilemma Chapter 29: The Rezrov Infocom Game Interpreter Chapter 30: Tktk: A Perl/Tk Solitaire Game Chapter 31: The First Perl/Internet Quiz Show Chapter 32: The Second Perl/Internet Quiz Show Chapter 33: The Third Perl/Internet Quiz Show Chapter 34: The Fourth Perl/Internet Quiz Show Chapter 35: The Perl Whirl Quiz Show Chapter 36: The Perl Wizard's Quiz Part V: Poetry Chapter 37: Just Another Perl Haiku Chapter 38: Searching for Rhymes with Perl Chapter 39: The Perl Poetry Contest Part VI: Politics Chapter 40: Pairwise Voting Chapter 41: Secure Internet Voting Chapter 42: Perl and Nuclear Weapons Don't Mix Part VII: Obfuscated Perl Chapter 43: The Zeroth Annual Obfuscated Perl Contest Chapter 44: The First Obfuscated Perl Contest Chapter 45: The Third Obfuscated Perl Contest Chapter 46: The Fourth Obfuscated Perl Contest Chapter 47: The Fifth Obfuscated Perl Contest Chapter 48: One-Liners Colophon

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