Category: Perl

What’s in my bookshelf?

It only took me exactly two years to read the Apress book Beginning Perl by James Lee, and I would have to admit this is the best programming book that I’ve read so far. I would need to give this book high praise as it was easy and fun to read ( pretty much taught […]

Hacker humor

While reading the regex portion of Apress’s Beginning Perl Second Edition by James Lee, the following sample code totally made my day. #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; $_ = “There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX”; s/(\w+)\s+(\w+)/$2 $1/; $_ = ucfirst($_); print $_, “?\n”;