ITworld.com – An associative array, when implemented in Perl, has come to be known as a “hash” — a word that is also used to describe the digested value (i.e., the “message digest”) generated from a ...

In the December 2000 issue of Linux Journal, I reviewed the latest edition of the classic Perl text: Programming Perl, 3rd Edition (or The Camel for short). In that review, my advice to new Perl ...