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Preface



1. Introduction





Part I. Culture



2. Wherefore Art, Thou?



3. TPJ Cover Art: From Camels to Spam



4. Perl Style



5. Home Automation with MisterHouse



6. Home Automation: The X10 Nitty-Gritty



7. A Day in the Life of comp.lang.perl.misc





Part II. Science



8. Perl-fect Sundials



9. Genetic Algorithms



10. How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project



11. PDL: The Perl Data Language





Part III. Language



12. Chatbot::Eliza



13. Infobots and Purl



14. Speech Synthesis



15. Lazy Text Formatting



16. Perl and MIDI: Simple Languages, Easy Music



17. Braille Contractions and Regular Expressions



18. Hypernyms, Hyponyms, Pertainyms, and Other Word Relationships



19. Parsing Natural Language



20. Word Morphology



21. Smart Matching for Human Names



22. Localizing Your Perl Programs



23. Internationalized Sorting



24. Simulating Typos with Perl



25. Correcting Typos with Perl



26. Learning Japanese with an HTML Filter





Part IV. Games and Quizzes



27. Games in Perl



28. The Prisoner's Dilemma



29. The Rezrov Infocom Game Interpreter



30. Tktk: A Perl/Tk Solitaire Game



31. The First Perl/Internet Quiz Show



32. The Second Perl/Internet Quiz Show



33. The Third Perl/Internet Quiz Show



34. The Fourth Perl/Internet Quiz Show



35. The Perl Whirl Quiz Show



36. The Perl Wizard's Quiz





Part V. Poetry



37. Just Another Perl Haiku



38. Searching for Rhymes with Perl



39. The Perl Poetry Contest





Part VI. Politics



40. Pairwise Voting



41. Secure Internet Voting



42. Perl and Nuclear Weapons Don't Mix





Part VII. Obfuscated Perl



43. The Zeroth Annual Obfuscated Perl Contest



44. The First Obfuscated Perl Contest



45. The Third Obfuscated Perl Contest



46. The Fourth Obfuscated Perl Contest



47. The Fifth Obfuscated Perl Contest



48. One-Liners



About the Authors



Index