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Camel Book N. Universally Recognized Nickname For The Book "Programming Perl", By Larry Wall And Randal L.
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Camel Book n.
Universally recognized nickname for the
book "Programming Perl", by Larry Wall and Randal L. Schwartz,
O'Reilly and Associates 1991, ISBN 0-937175-64-1 (second edition 1996,
ISBN 1-56592-149-6). The definitive reference on
Perl.
Related:
A Perl script is correct if it's halfway readable and it gets the job done before your boss fires you.
-- "Programming Perl," by Larry Wall and Randal Schwartz...
Red Book n. 1. Informal name for one of the four standard references on PostScript ("PostScript Language Reference Manual", Adobe Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1985
QA76.73.P67P67; ISBN 0-201-10174-2, or the 1990 second edition ISBN 0-201-18127-4)...
Yellow Book n. The print version of this Jargon File
The New Hacker's Dictionary" from MIT Press; The book includes essentially all the material the File, plus a Foreword by Guy L....
Perl /perl/ n. [Practical Extraction and Report Language, a.
k.a. Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister] An interpreted language developed by Larry Wall (&l...
Red Book: n. 1. Informal name for one of the three standard references on {{PostScript}} ("PostScript Language Reference Manual", Adobe Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1985
QA76.73.P67P67; ISBN 0-201-10174-2, or the 1990 second edition ISBN 0-201-18127-4)...
Perl: /perl/ [Practical Extraction and Report Language, a.
k.a Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister] n. An interpreted language developed by Larry Wall &l...
Purple Book n. 1. The "System V Interface Definition".
The covers of the first editions were an amazingly nauseating shade of off-lavender....
Silver Book n. Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal User Manual and Repo
o called because of the silver cover of the widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN 0-387-90144-2)....
White Book n. 1. Syn. K&R. 2. Adobe's fourth book in the PostScript series, describing the previously-secret format of Type 1 fo
Adobe Type 1 Font Format, version 1.1", (Addison-Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0-201-57044-0)....