Like all of the books in O'Reilly's "Hacks" series, "Perl Hacks" will appeal to a variety of programmers - from seasoned pros to dabblers and learners who enjoy the fun of technology. Each hack is designed to be a short lesson: Some are practical, task-based exercises that teach the reader essential skills, while many hacks are simply fun examples of the many cool things that can be done with Perl, the ultimate versatile scripting language. Example hacks include a way to add CPAN shortcuts to the Firefox web browser, a hack to read files backwards, and tips for writing graphical games in Perl. The audience for this book is not limited to Perl programmers either; many non-programmers use Perl as one of several enabling technologies, and it will be useful to them by showing specialized idioms and ideas for common situations.
