Curly Bracket Programming Languages: C, Java, C++, Perl, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Bcpl, awk, Quakec, Objective-C, Cyclone, Pike, Unrealscript, Rc

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Chapters: C, Java, C++, Perl, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, BCPL, AWK, QuakeC, Objective-C, Cyclone, Pike, UnrealScript, Rc, D, Windows PowerShell, C Sharp, ActionScript, Inform, ECMAScript, Indent style, LPC, Game Maker Language, Scala, Yoix, Go, Cilk, SuperCollider, AutoHotkey, Mythryl, JScript, C++/CLI, Groovy, Distributed Application Specification Language, Linden Scripting Language, TADS, Nemerle, Frink, Axum, ChucK, Oak, PCASTL, NWScript, Squirrel, Pawn, Ch interpreter, X10, Limbo, Embedded C++, SAC programming language, Vala, Neko, Yorick, Ferite, Dexterity programming language, Alef, ApeScript, Kaya, Pico, Actor-Based Concurrent Language, Newsqueak, ICI, AngelScript, Nice, Hugo, SA-C, Lightweight Java, Bigwig, GScript, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 149. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular amongst programmers. Larry Wall continues to oversee development of the core language, and its upcoming version, Perl 6. Perl borrows features from other programming languages including C, shell scripting (sh), AWK, and sed. The language provides powerful text processing facilities without the arbitrary data length limits of many contemporary Unix tools, facilitating easy manipulation of text files. It is also used for graphics programming, system administration, network programming, applications that require database access and CGI programming on the Web. Perl is nicknamed "the Swiss Army chainsaw of programming languages" due to its flexibility and adaptability. Larry Wall began work on Perl in 1987, while working as a programm...http: //booksllc.net/?id=23939

536 pages, Paperback

First published May 20, 2010

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