McMillen writes that much of the time, the results worked simply because Perl can parse unquoted character strings as text that other programming languages would reject outright.

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The future of Perl requires both visionaries and mechanics; one of the charms of Win32 Perl Scripting is that Roth manages to balance those roles in his own life and career.

Perl syntax is particularly flexible—a Perl motto is “There's more than one way to do it”. This can make Perl code confusing for the novice, but he has been careful to use consistent idioms ...

Hi all. I'm trying to learn Perl CGI scripting (and the rest of Perl, too, as I go about it), but I'm hitting a problem that pretty much stumps me. What happens is that when I hit submit on the ...