OO Perl by Rana Conway
This work is designed to assist programmers with basic to intermediate skills in procedural Perl with Object Oriented capabilities. It helps readers decide when, where and why they might most appropriately use OO Perl.Damian Conway holds a PhD in Computer Science and is an honorary Associate Professor with the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.Currently he runs an international IT training company--Thoughtstream--which provides programmer development from beginner to masterclass level throughout Europe, North America, and Australasia.Damian was the winner of the 1998, 1999, and 2000 Larry Wall Awards for Practical Utility. The best technical paper at the annual Perl Conference was subsequently named in his honour. He is a member of the technical committee for The Perl Conference, a keynote speaker at many Open Source conferences, a former columnist for The Perl Journal, and author of the book Object Oriented Perl. In 2001 Damian received the first Perl Foundation Development Grant and spent 20 months working on projects for the betterment of Perl.A popular speaker and trainer, he is also the author of numerous well-known Perl modules, including Parse: : RecDescent (a sophisticated parsing tool), Class: : Contract (design-by-contract programming in Perl), Lingua: : EN: : Inflect (rule-based English transformations for text generation), Class: : Multimethods (multiple dispatch polymorphism), Text: : Autoformat (intelligent automatic reformatting of plaintext), Switch (Perl's missing case statement), NEXT (resumptive method dispatch), Filter: : Simple (Perl-based source code manipulation), Quantum: : Superpositions (auto-parallelization of serial code using a quantum mechanical metaphor), and Lingua: : Romana: : Perligata (programming in Latin).Most of his time is now spent working with Larry Wall on the design of the new Perl 6 programming language.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781884777790 |
| ISBN 10 | 1884777791 |
| Title | OO Perl |
| Author | Rana Conway |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Manning Publications |
| Year published | 1999-10-12 |
| Number of pages | 490 |
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