A comprehensive guide to the programming language covers updating text and binary files, subroutines, libraries, data structures, signals, screen addressing, and client-server programming.[...]
Adopted as the undisputed Perl bible soon after the first edition appeared in 1991, "Programming Perl" is still the go-to guide for this highly practical language. Perl began life as a super-fueled text processing utility, but quickly evolved into a general purpose programming language that's helped[...]