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Tables of Contents for Games, Diversions & Perl Culture
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Introduction
1
4
Part I. Culture
Wherefore Art, Thou?
5
5
TPJ Cover Art: From Camels to Spam
10
22
Perl Style
32
6
Home Automation with MisterHouse
38
11
Home Automation: The X10 Nitty-Gritty
49
12
A Day in the Life of comp.lang.perl.misc
61
10
Part II. Science
Perl-fect Sundials
71
8
Genetic Algorithms
79
10
How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project
89
9
PDL: The Perl Data Language
98
11
Part III. Language
Chatbot::Eliza
109
6
Infobots and Purl
115
11
Speech Synthesis
126
8
Lazy Text Formatting
134
10
Perl and MIDI: Simple Languages, Easy Music
144
15
Braille Contractions and Regular Expressions
159
13
Hypernyms, Hyponyms, Pertainyms, and Other Word Relationships
172
17
Parsing Natural Language
189
12
Word Morphology
201
12
Smart Matching for Human Names
213
6
Localizing Your Perl Programs
219
14
Internationalized Sorting
233
12
Simulating Typos with Perl
245
12
Correcting Typos with Perl
257
6
Learning Japanese with an HTML Filter
263
12
Part IV. Games and Quizzes
Games in Perl
275
5
The Prisoner's Dilemma
280
6
The Rezrov Infocom Game Interpreter
286
20
Tktk: A Perl/Tk Solitaire Game
306
10
The First Perl/Internet Quiz Show
316
13
The Second Perl/Internet Quiz Show
329
17
The Third Perl/Internet Quiz Show
346
15
The Fourth Perl/Internet Quiz Show
361
22
The Perl Whirl Quiz Show
383
12
The Perl Wizard's Quiz
395
12
Part V. Poetry
Just Another Perl Haiku
407
18
Searching for Rhymes with Perl
425
12
The Perl Poetry Contest
437
8
Part VI. Politics
Pairwise Voting
445
15
Secure Internet Voting
460
19
Perl and Nuclear Weapons Don't Mix
479
8
Part VII. Obfuscated Perl
The Zeroth Annual Obfuscated Perl Contest
487
7
The First Obfuscated Perl Contest
494
9
The Third Obfuscated Perl Contest
503
6
The Fourth Obfuscated Perl Contest
509
6
The Fifth Obfuscated Perl Contest
515
7
One-Liners
522
17
About the Authors
539
4
Index
543