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	  The Perl Journal is a quarterly, printed magazine
		     devoted to All Things Perl.

			    http://tpj.com

       Issue #8 is speeding toward press, and will be mailed in
       mid-late December.  If you want to receive it as part of
      your subscription, you'll need to subscribe by November 30.

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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

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Jon Orwant            http://tpj.com
Editor & Publisher, The Perl Journal


