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         The Perl Journal is a quarterly, printed magazine
                    devoted to All Things Perl.

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      Issue #8 is speeding toward press, and will be mailed in
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                     Complete Table of Contents

Issue #8 (tentative):

    The Java Perl Library
    The Perl Wizard's Quiz
    Torture Testing Web Servers and CGI Scripts
    SWIG (Simpified Wrapper Interface Generator)
    The Net::Telnet module
    Perl News / New Modules
    Win32 Perl: NT Administration
    Perl does EBCDIC?
    B-Trees
    The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
    Perl Guts: Knee Deep in the Code
    Unreal Numbers (arithmetic precision)
    Interprocess Communication with MacPerl

Issue #7:
    Win32 Perl
    PerlScript
    Infinite Lists
    Just the FAQs: Short Circuits
    Regexes: Nibbling with pos()
    Perl/Tk: Binding Basics
    Obfuscated Perl Contest -- The Winners
    Perl News / New Modules
    Perfect Programming
    A Perl in the Oil Patch
    WebPluck
    MakeMaker: Doing More While Doing Less
    The Stones Contest

Issue #6:

    The First Annual Obfuscated Perl Contest
    Randomness, Part Two
    Using the AutoLoader and AutoSplit modules
    Perl/Tk: A Tour of the Nonstandard Widgets
    CGI and the Web: Computing Coolness
    Just the FAQs: Sorting Tutorial
    Making Your Own Sundials with Perl
    WebClip: Gathering Data from the Web
    A Perl in the Oil Patch
    3-D Graphics and Perl
    Perl News / New Modules
    Information Retrieval and What "pack 'w'" is For

Issue #5:

    Programming like you mean it: Pattern Languages
    In Sync With Your Data (Understanding Regular Expressions)
    DBI - The Database Interface for Perl 5
    Perl/Tk: Signals, Sockets, and Pipes
    Creating Surreal HTML Pages With The Mangler
    Perl News / New Modules
    Perl and the X protocol
    PDL: The Perl Data Language
    Perl And Nuclear Weapons Don't Mix

Issue #4:

    A Subjective Look at Object Oriented Programming
    Best of Both Worlds: Embedding Perl in C
    The LWP Library: CGI Programming
    use Lovecraft qw(cthulhu necronomicon)
    New Modules
    Randomness
    Understanding Regular Expressions
    The Grid Geometry Manager: Perl/Tk Programming
    The Perl Purity Test
    Using Usenet from Perl

Issue #3:

    Data Hiding
    Perl, Politics, and Pairwise Voting
    CGI Scripts and Cookies
    Penguin: The First Tentative Waddle
    New Modules
    Perl/Tk: Events and Other Things
    FTP: File Transfer Using Perl
    Understanding Regular Expressions
    The Perl Institute
    Obfuscated Perl Contest Results

Issue #2:

    How Perl Saved The Human Genome Project
    The Perl Compiler
    Penguin: Java Done Right
    MacPerl
    Perl And The Tk Toolkit: The Mouse Odometer
    Saving State with CGI.pm
    Understanding Regular Expressions
    Results of the Prisoner's Dilemma
    The Zeroth Obfuscated Perl Contest

Issue #1:

    Wherefore Art, Thou?
    Perl And The Tk Toolkit
    Creating, Processing, And Sending Mail From Perl
    HTML Hacking with Regular Expressions
    Programming For The Web: CGI.pm
    The Prisoner's Dilemma

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Jon Orwant            http://tpj.com
Editor & Publisher, The Perl Journal

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