[BNE-PM] Perl advent calendar!

Derek Thomson derek at wedgetail.com
Mon Dec 2 22:22:19 CST 2002


Hi,

This has been a yearly tradition for a whole 3 years now ... forever in 
internet time!

The basic idea is that as each day towards Christmas approaches, you 
open up a new day in the calendar and receive a treat - in this case 
instead of a sweet or candy, an introduction to a *way* cool Perl module 
that you might never have heard of otherwise. It's fun and way better 
for your teeth!

Perl newbies or non-initiates can get some idea of the sheer range of 
quality stuff that's in the module repository (better than *any* other 
language/platform by at least an order of magnitude!), and for others 
you get to find some really cool stuff.

I've learned of useful modules this way in past years, and this year has 
already featured URI::Find, IO::AtomicFile and DBD::SQLite, which look 
great and are things *I'm* going to be using, and I'd certainly never 
heard of them before.

--
D




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