The next two chapters cover network programming with sockets and common protocols. Example programs illustrate the differences between sending data with UDP and TCP transport mechanisms. Other ...

A quick run down on how you can use regular expressions in your own programs to give you more power over searching and substituting text.

Programming The Network With Perl is quite different from other Perl books I have read. Many are written as reference books, whereas this one is written more like a textbook, with exercises at the end ...

(Perl is only the most conspicuous example of a large number of popular programs that use the same algorithm; the above graph could have been Python, or PHP, or Ruby, or many other languages.

I write Perl programs that use the Windows shell command dir. The dir command is built into cmd.exe and there is no dir.exe in the System folder.

Novice programmers were able to write sample programs more accurately in Quorum versus Perl–an interesting, but not terribly surprising, result. More surprising was how Perl compared to Randomo.

Perl is a messy, maddening programming language, the “duct tape of the internet.” But at least you can tell it was made by humans.