Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials

This look at Perl 6 uncovers developments in Parrot - the interpreter engine that will execute code written in the new Perl 6 language and the most revolutionar

Internally, however, there are still kinks and stumbling blocks that developers need to sidestep, long-abandoned features maintained only for backward compatibi

Shows how to write, debug, and run a Perl program, describes CGI scripting and data manipulation, and describes scalar values, basic operators, and associative

Looks at the Perl test tools and offers a series of exercises that cover such topics as bundling test suites, testing databases, and testing Web sites and proje

With a worldwide community of users and more than a million dedicated programmers, Perl has proven to be the most effective language for the latest trends in co

Reconfigurable computing brings immense flexibility to on-chip processing while network-on-chip has improved flexibility in on-chip communication. Integrating t

* Perl 6 is not going to be available for quite a while, but, there is enormous interest in the Perl community (Perl use=14% and succeeds Linux and PHP in popul