Professional Perl Development Author:Randy Kobes, Peter Wainwright, Shishir Gundavaram, Gavin Brown Perl is not only the scripting language of choice for many people, but a powerful programming language that can be used to develop serious applications. Backed by numerous libraries, this language is capable of performing just about any task. — This book examines the Perl libraries that are most interesting to developers of professional, real-wor... more »ld applications. It covers web client and server programming, manipulating data in databases and LDAP servers, network and distributed programming, embedding Perl into web pages (templates, HTML::Mason, HTML::Embperl, Apache::ASP, and PerlScript), mathematical and computational applications, graphics and GUI programming, and creating and manipulating XML.« less