The Perl Archive
318 modules, 365 scripts, neatly organized and delightfully useful.

The Perl CDROM is based on CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. Larry Wall's Perl combines the best features of C, sed, awk, and sh. People familiar with those languages should love Perl. Perl is an interpreted language optimized for scanning text files, extracting information, and printing reports. It's also an excellent language for many system management tasks.

CPAN, aims to be The Perl archive. It+s the only Perl archive you will ever need. The material is as up-to-date as possible, and organized to make finding files easy.

You'll own the sources to the latest versions of both Perl4 (4.036) and Perl5 (5.002, 5.002b3, and 5.003). You'll also get source or binary versions for Solaris, SunOS, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows NT/95/3.1, Mac, OS/2, DOS, Amiga, and Atari. Perl compiles on over 40 platforms.

There are 365 scripts for Perl4/5, including system administration utilities, mail-handling, Internet traversal, and file-handling libraries. This CDROM contains a very robust collection of tools dealing with HTML, CGI, Sytax-Parsing, Web Servers, and other WWW topics. You also get 318 modules for Perl5.

The Perl CDROM comes with documentation, papers, examples, and support utilities. There are articles on a variety of subjects, including discussions of the new features in Perl5.

Extensions include connections to Tk, Motif, and many databases including Oracle (6 & 7), Sybase 4, Ingres, Informix, and Postgres, as well as B-trees and C-trees. We know you'll enjoy this CDROM!

Note that you should not try to learn Perl under Windows. Perl was built as a language running under UNIX. There have been attempts to port Perl to Win95, WinNT, etc., but because of those operating systems' limitations, Perl does not work properly.

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Price: $39.95
Released: December 1996