Perl 5 Internals
by Simon Cozens
Publisher: NetThink 2001
Description:
This is a three-hour course which provides a hands-on introduction to how the perl interpreter works internally, how to go about testing and fixing bugs in the interpreter, and what the internals are likely to look like in the future of Perl, Perl 6.
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