书名:Perl Cookbook(第二版,影印版)
国内出版社:东南大学出版社
出版时间:2011年03月
页数:976
书号:978-7-5641-2494-6
原版书书名:Perl Cookbook, Second Edition
原版书出版商:O'Reilly Media
Tom Christiansen
Tom Christiansen是一位擅长Perl培训和写作的自由职业顾问。为TSR Hobbies (以其“龙与地下城”游戏而闻名)工作多年之后,他又返回大学,在西班牙待了一年,另外5年留在美国,热衷于音乐、语言学和编程,另外还学习了6种不同的语言。Tom最后终于从威斯康星大学-麦迪逊分校拿到了西班牙语和计算机科学的学士学位,另外还拿到计算机科学的硕士学位。接下来5年他在Convex担任一种万事通的角色,从系统管理到工具和内核开发都有涉足,另外还要负责客户支持和培训。Tom还在USENIX协会董事会担任了两届董事。由于有30多年Unix系统编程方面的经验,Tom举办过多场国际研讨会。如今Tom生活在科罗拉多州巨石市上面的丘陵地区,他的夏天总是在远足、骑马、捕鸟、作曲和游戏中度过。
Nathan Torkington
Nathan Torkington has never climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He adamantly maintains
that he was nowhere near the grassy knoll. He has never mustered superhuman
strength to lift a burning trolleycar to free a trapped child, and is yet to taste human
flesh. Nat has never served as a mercenary in the Congo, line-danced, run away to
join the circus, spent a year with the pygmies, finished the Death By Chocolate, or
been miraculously saved when his cigarillo case stopped the bullet.
Nat is not American, though he is learning the language. He is from Ti Point, New
Zealand. People from Ti Point don’t do these things. They grow up on fishing boats
and say things like ‘‘She’ll be right, mate.’’ Nat did. He works as an editor for
O’Reilly, selects content for the Open Source Convention, is project manager for Perl
6, and sits on the board of The Perl Foundation. He lives in Colorado and New
Zealand with his wife, Jenine, and their children, William and Aurelia. His hobbies
are bluegrass music and Perl.
The animal featured on the cover of Perl Cookbook, Second Edition is a bighorn
sheep. Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) are wild sheep noted, not surprisingly, for
their large, curved horns. Male bighorns grow to approximately 5 feet long and 40
inches tall to the shoulder and weigh up to 350 pounds. Their horns measure up to
18 inches in circumference and 4 feet long and can weigh up to 30 pounds. Despite
their bulk, bighorns are adept at negotiating mountainous terrains. With their sharp, cloven hooves they can walkon ledges as thin as two inches. They have excellent
eyesight that enables them to locate footholds and to accurately judge distances
between ledges. They can jump as far as 20 feet from ledge to ledge.
Competition for ewes is intense and often leads to fierce battles that can continue for
a full day. During the battle two rams race at each other at speeds of up to 20 miles
an hour, clashing their horns together. The skull of the bighorn sheep is doublelayered
to provide protection from these blows. Horn size is a significant factor in
determining rank, and rams will only fight other rams with an equivalently sized
horn. Mature males usually stay apart from the females and young. In these “bachelor
flocks” the lower-ranking males often play the part of ewes and behave in a
submissive manner toward the dominant males. The dominant male, in turn,
behaves like a courting ram and mounts the lower-ranking male. This behavior is
believed to enable the rams to live together without rankdisputes that might otherwise
drive the lower-ranking males out of the flock.
Bighorns can be found in the Rocky Mountains from Canada to Colorado and in the
desert from California to west Texas and Mexico. They are threatened with extinction
as a result of disease, habitat reduction, and hunting.