Games, Diversions & Perl Culture – Best of the Perl Journal

Preface;
Finding Perl Resources;
Conventions Used in This Book;
Using Code Examples;
Comments and Questions;
Acknowledgments;
Chapter 1: Introduction;
Part I: Culture;
Chapter 2: Wherefore Art, Thou?;
2.1 Music to My Ears;
Chapter 3: TPJ Cover Art: From Camels to Spam;
3.1 TPJ #1: The Camel;
3.2 TPJ #2: The Pearl;
3.3 TPJ #3: RSA on Greenbar;
3.4 TPJ #4: Etch-a-Sketch.;
3.5 TPJ #5: Commodities;
3.6 TPJ #6: Scrabble;
3.7 TPJ #7: Spiderball;
3.8 TPJ #8: The Coffee Cup Fiasco;
3.9 TPJ #9: Drummer/Coder Wanted;
3.10 TPJ #10: The Underwood Typewriter;
3.11 TPJ #11: The Conspiracy;
3.12 TPJ #12: The Atari Perl Cartridge;
3.13 TPJ #13: Dance Remixes;
3.14 TPJ #14: Outlook Not So Good;
3.15 TPJ #15: Braille blocks;
3.16 TPJ #16: e. e. cummings’ Gravestone;
3.17 TPJ #17: Napster;
3.18 TPJ #18: Spam;
3.19 TPJ #19: Monopoly Money;
3.20 TPJ #20: WAP;
Chapter 4: Perl Style;
4.1 Background;
4.2 Existing Measures;
4.3 The Basic Units;
4.4 The Tool;
4.5 Usage;
4.6 Why This Should Be Hard To Do;
4.7 The Perl Compiler to the Rescue;
4.8 Future Directions;
4.9 Acknowledgments;
Chapter 5: Home Automation with MisterHouse;
5.1 HA! Perl?;
5.2 MisterHouse;
5.3 Objects in the Home;
5.4 Talking and Listening;
5.5 A Smart TV Guide;
5.6 Whole House CallerID;
5.7 Squeaky Stairs;
5.8 You Have Mail;
5.9 Say What?;
5.10 Give Your House a Brain;
Chapter 6: Home Automation: The X10 Nitty-Gritty;
6.1 Simple Output Commands: The CM17;
6.2 The ControlX10::CM17 and ControlX10::CM11 Modules;
6.3 What’s in a Command?;
6.4 Timing Issues;
6.5 Bidirectional I/O with the CM11;
6.6 A Few More Considerations;
Chapter 7: A Day in the Life of comp.lang.perl.misc;
7.1 A Little History;
7.2 How the “Day in the Life” Was Done;
7.3 The Raw Statistics;
7.4 The Day’s Weather Report;
7.5 Netiquette Nits;
7.6 The Regulars;
7.7 The Future of comp.lang.perl.misc;
Part II: Science;
Chapter 8: Perl-fect Sundials;
8.1 Building Your Own;
Chapter 9: Genetic Algorithms;
9.1 The Genetic Code;
9.2 Assembling an Organism;
9.3 Survival of the Fittest;
9.4 Sex and Mutation;
9.5 The Terrifying Results;
9.6 Other Applications;
9.7 Going Further;
9.8 Other Fitness Functions;
9.9 Resources;
Chapter 10: How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project;
10.1 Bioinformatics and Perl;
10.2 Other Uses for Perl;
10.3 Problems with Perl;
Chapter 11: PDL: The Perl Data Language;
11.1 The perldl Shell;
11.2 Listing of a Few PDL Functions;
11.3 Where Are We Now?;
Part III: Language;
Chapter 12: Chatbot::Eliza;
12.1 How It Works;
12.2 What Now?;
12.3 References;
Chapter 13: Infobots and Purl;
13.1 IRC;
13.2 Bots and Infobots;
13.3 So What?;
13.4 Are You Spongeworthy?;
13.5 You Can’t Do That in Public!;
13.6 What Are You Thinking?;
13.7 Idiot Savant;
13.8 A Sense of Play;
13.9 What? We Ordered No Pizzas!;
13.10 Future Directions;
13.11 Where to Get It;
13.12 Acknowledgments;
13.13 References;
Chapter 14: Speech Synthesis;
14.1 Pre-Recorded Sentences;
14.2 Lexical Synthesis in One s///;
14.3 The Out-of-Vocabulary Problem: Synthesis in One s///e;
14.4 Text-to-Phoneme Conversion;
14.5 More Context: Two Substitutions;
14.6 What Else?;
14.7 References;
Chapter 15: Lazy Text Formatting;
15.1 Text::Autoformat;
15.2 Paragraphs;
15.3 Quoting;
15.4 Lists;
15.5 Quotations;
15.6 Widows;
15.7 Justification and Sentencing;
15.8 Future Features;
Chapter 16: Perl and MIDI: Simple Languages, Easy Music;
16.1 Hard Things Possible;
16.2 Approach 1: A Novel Language;
16.3 Approach 2: An Extensional Language;
16.4 Easy Things Easy;
16.5 Behold MIDI::Simple!;
16.6 “Relative” Notes;
16.7 Percussion, Uniformity, and noop;
16.8 The Object-Oriented Interface;
16.9 Using synch, and Some Actual Music;
16.10 Mod, Canons, and Rounds;
16.11 Future Features;
16.12 References;
Chapter 17: Braille Contractions and Regular Expressions;
17.1 Braille and Contractions;
17.2 Sample Text in Braille;
Chapter 18: Hypernyms, Hyponyms, Pertainyms, and Other Word Relationships;
18.1 Concepts in Wordnet;
18.2 Converting the Data;
18.3 Installing Lingua::Wordnet;
18.4 Basic Usage;
18.5 Movin’ It Up a Level;
18.6 Other Word Relationships;
18.7 Other Useful Functions;
18.8 What’s Next?;
Chapter 19: Parsing Natural Language;
19.1 I See a Pattern Developing;
19.2 Link Grammar;
19.3 Lingua::LinkParser;
19.4 Irregular Regular Expressions, Overloaded;
19.5 What Sucks? What Rocks?;
19.6 What Sucks, Regex Style;
19.7 The What-Sucks-Ometer;
19.8 There’s Lots More Here;
19.9 References;
19.10 A Full Lingua::LinkParser Example;
Chapter 20: Word Morphology;
20.1 Morphology: Word Form and Structure;
20.2 Morphological Analysis and Perl;
20.3 Constructing a Word Frequency List;
20.4 Morphological Inflections and Derivations;
20.5 Representing a Single Rule;
20.6 Representing Many Rules;
20.7 Telling Good from Bad;
20.8 The Key Insight!;
20.9 Implementing It;
20.10 Applying the Derivation Process to All Tokens;
20.11 Summary;
20.12 Future Work;
Chapter 21: Smart Matching for Human Names;
21.1 Installing the Modules;
21.2 Module Contents;
21.3 Using the Modules;
21.4 What They Do;
21.5 Matching Nicknames;
21.6 Conclusion;
Chapter 22: Localizing Your Perl Programs;
22.1 A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen to You;
22.2 The Linguistic View;
22.3 Breaking gettext;
22.4 Replacing gettext;
22.5 Buzzwords: Abstraction and Encapsulation;
22.6 Buzzword: Isomorphism;
22.7 Buzzword: Inheritance;
22.8 Buzzword: Concision;
22.9 The Devil in the Details;
22.10 Proof in the Pudding: Localizing Web Sites;
22.11 References;
Chapter 23: Internationalized Sorting;
23.1 Default sort Versus “Normal” English Sorting;
23.2 Locale-Based Sorting;
23.3 Spanish: Cana y Caña;
23.4 Spanish: Chorizo, Chimichangas, Chicharrones, y Churros;
23.5 Bi-Level Sorting to the Rescue;
23.6 English: Résumé and Resume;
23.7 Optimizing with Memoization;
23.8 Sorting it All Out;
Chapter 24: Simulating Typos with Perl;
24.1 Simulating the Typos;
24.2 How to Identify Words;
24.3 Typos in Other Languages;
24.4 Results;
24.5 References;
Chapter 25: Correcting Typos with Perl;
25.1 Why Was It Written?;
25.2 How Does It Work?;
25.3 The Sub::Approx Module;
25.4 The Symbol::Approx::Sub Module;
25.5 Future Plans;
25.6 Afterword;
Chapter 26: Learning Japanese with an HTML Filter;
26.1 The Web;
26.2 Dictionary Database;
26.3 The CGI Script;
26.4 Taking It a Step Further;
26.5 Conclusion;
26.6 wwwkan.pl;
Part IV: Games and Quizzes;
Chapter 27: Games in Perl;
27.1 Strategy Games;
27.2 Cards;
27.3 Dice;
27.4 Word Games;
27.5 Twitch Games;
Chapter 28: The Prisoner’s Dilemma;
28.1 The Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma;
28.2 The Three-Way Prisoner’s Dilemma;
28.3 The Prisoner’s Dilemma Programming Contest;
28.4 Results of the Contest;
Chapter 29: The Rezrov Infocom Game Interpreter;
29.1 Resurrecting the Z-Machine;
29.2 Enter the Camel;
29.3 What’s It Do?;
29.4 The Joy of vec;
29.5 Tinkering with the Z-Machine;
29.6 Teleport;
29.7 Bamf;
29.8 Pilfer;
29.9 Universal Command Set;
29.10 Interface Abstraction;
29.11 Performance Considerations;
29.12 Quantity Is Job One;
29.13 A Plea for Inlining;
29.14 Conclusion;
29.15 References;
Chapter 30: Tktk: A Perl/Tk Solitaire Game;
30.1 The Rules;
30.2 A First Cut;
30.3 Shuffling;
30.4 Layout;
30.5 Show the Tableau!;
30.6 Would You Like to Play a Game?;
30.7 Making the Moves;
30.8 Laying the Base;
30.9 Pickup Lines;
30.10 Oops!;
30.11 Finishing Touches;
Chapter 31: The First Perl/Internet Quiz Show;
31.1 Toss-up Questions;
31.2 Bonus Questions;
31.3 The Answers;
Chapter 32: The Second Perl/Internet Quiz Show;
32.1 Sample Questions;
32.2 Toss-up Questions;
32.3 Bonus Questions;
32.4 The Answers;
Chapter 33: The Third Perl/Internet Quiz Show;
33.1 Toss-up Questions;
33.2 Bonus Questions;
Chapter 34: The Fourth Perl/Internet Quiz Show;
34.1 Toss-up Questions;
34.2 Toss-up Answers;
34.3 Bonus Answers;
Chapter 35: The Perl Whirl Quiz Show;
35.1 Toss-up Questions;
35.2 Bonus Questions;
35.3 Toss-up Answers;
35.4 Bonus Answers;
Chapter 36: The Perl Wizard’s Quiz;
36.1 Answers;
Part V: Poetry;
Chapter 37: Just Another Perl Haiku;
37.1 The Tao of Haiku;
37.2 Haiku Online;
37.3 Artificial Haiku;
37.4 The Coy Module;
37.5 A Note About the Name;
37.6 Inside the Coy Module;
37.7 Mere Words;
37.8 Random Harvesting;
37.9 Filling in the Blanks;
37.10 The Other Type of Grammar;
37.11 Counting the Beat;
37.12 But Does the Bear Dance?;
37.13 Extending the Module;
37.14 Is There a Poet in the House?;
37.15 It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time;
Chapter 38: Searching for Rhymes with Perl;
38.1 Where to Look;
38.2 Preparing the Data;
38.3 Searching the Prepared Data;
38.4 Counting Syllables;
38.5 Coping with (Syllabic) Stress;
38.6 A Simple mpron Searcher;
38.7 Accommodating Another Notation;
Chapter 39: The Perl Poetry Contest;
39.1 The Categories;
39.2 The Results;
Part VI: Politics;
Chapter 40: Pairwise Voting;
40.1 The Preference Ballot;
40.2 Impossibility Theorems;
40.3 The Borda Method;
40.4 The Hare Method;
40.5 Pairwise Election Methods;
40.6 Condorcet’s Method;
40.7 Smith’s Method;
40.8 Copeland’s Method;
40.9 The Algorithms;
40.10 The Pairwise Engine;
40.11 Using CGI to Spit It All Out;
40.12 Random Thoughts;
40.13 References;
40.14 Sites;
Chapter 41: Secure Internet Voting;
41.1 About Secure Elections;
41.2 The Database Schema;
41.3 Generating VRNs;
41.4 The E-Ballot;
41.5 The vote Program;
41.6 Tallying the Votes;
Chapter 42: Perl and Nuclear Weapons Don’t Mix;
42.1 A Little Rocket Science;
42.2 Red Alert!;
Part VII: Obfuscated Perl;
Chapter 43: The Zeroth Annual Obfuscated Perl Contest;
43.1 The Categories;
43.2 How It Works;
43.3 Hints and Suggestions;
43.4 So There You Have It;
43.5 Results;
Chapter 44: The First Obfuscated Perl Contest;
44.1 Results;
Chapter 45: The Third Obfuscated Perl Contest;
45.1 Most Powerful;
45.2 Most Creative;
45.3 Best “The Perl Journal”;
45.4 Best of Show;
Chapter 46: The Fourth Obfuscated Perl Contest;
46.1 Results;
Chapter 47: The Fifth Obfuscated Perl Contest;
47.1 Results;
Chapter 48: One-Liners;
48.1 Useful One-Liners;
48.2 Not So Useful One-Liners;
Colophon;