Network Programming with Perl
by Lincoln D. Stein · first published 2000
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I really liked Lincoln Stein's Network Programming with Perl. Excelent examples and clearly explained from the basics.
on “Beej's Guide to Network Programming” ↗I'd add Network Programming with Perl by Lincoln Stein. Somewhat more specific, and many of the libraries used are dated. But it did provide you with a huge amount of information, from writing simple echo clients with raw sockets up to fully…
on “Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (2005)” ↗…Perl" by Larry Wall; get advice on elegance from "Modern Perl" by Chromatic; if you want to build an Internet component smaller than an available module (or get guidance on the implementation thereof), "Network Programming with Perl" by Lincoln Stein is superb.
on “Raku: A Language for Gremlins” ↗…internally, and many witnesses who can attest to the accuracy of those records. That may or may not be sufficient evidence of prior art. For the Perl implementation, the basis of the design came from the book "Network Programming with Perl" by Lincoln Stein. I'm pretty sure he covered the basic "accept a connection and fork" pattern, and in the Perl world the big benefit of the pattern is the pre-loading and compiling of modules/classes…
on “My Thoughts on Oracle v Google” ↗Lincoln Stein. Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time. He's the author of the essay "How Perl Saved the Genome Project", the books "Network Programming with Perl" and "Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C", and a number of Perl packages including CGI.pm - which helped power the dot-com era - and GD.pm.
on “Speedup from switch to +=” ↗