Review by Gregor Theis for Web, Graphics & Perl TK: Best of the Perl Journal
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“Web, Graphics and Perl/TK” is a reprint of the best articles of the The Perl Journal (TPJ) for the following topics:- Web programming with Perl
- Graphics programming with Perl
- Perl/TKThe chapter about “Web programming” covers roughly the following topics:
- CGI programming and CGI.pm
- mod_perl programming
- LWP (libwwwperl) and the modules to parse HTML
- Miscellaneous topicsI found the main chapter “Web programming” very interesting and a good introduction into the topics that it covered.The chapter “Graphics” is a collection of articles about Graphics programming without the use of Perl/TK (e.g. GD, Perl and GIMP). I found the articles to be quite interesting and to contain some very good ideas. Because I am a database guy, I will not use most of these ideas but I will definitely use GD to generate web graphics. It is always amazing how much you can do with Perl and how easy this can be (sometimes).The third part of the ” Web, Graphics and Perl/TK” deals with Perl/TK only. I personally do not really understand TK (even when I was still using TCL/TK) so that I cannot really comment on the contents of these articles. I found them quite readable and the stile was OK. However if I had to (re-)learn TK, these articles would not be enough. If I need to use Perl/TK, I will buy the O’Reilly books that cover Perl/TK.I like this TPJ series because the authors cover a certain aspect of Perl or Perl usage in a very condensed form that makes it easy to get a quick start in this area. I am really looking forward to reading “Games, Diversions and Perl Culture” (last book of this series