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Newer page: version 2 Last edited on Tuesday, June 4, 2002 12:22:33 am by perry
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@@ -207,15 +207,15 @@
  
 Komodo 
  
  
-ActiveState's cross-platform, multi-language 
+! ActiveState's cross-platform, multi-language 
 IDE has Perl support, including a regular 
 expression debugger and remote debugging 
-(http://www.ActiveState.com/Products/Komodo/index.html). 
+(http://www.! ActiveState.com/Products/Komodo/index.html). 
 (Visual Perl, a Visual Studio.NET plug-in is currently 
 (early 2001) in beta 
-(http://www.ActiveState.com/Products/VisualPerl/index.html)). 
+(http://www.! ActiveState.com/Products/! VisualPerl/index.html)). 
  
  
 The Object System 
  
@@ -223,9 +223,9 @@
 (http://www.castlelink.co.uk/object_system/) is a Perl web 
 applications development IDE . 
  
  
-PerlBuilder 
+! PerlBuilder 
  
  
 (http://www.solutionsoft.com/perl.htm) is an integrated 
 development environment for Windows that supports Perl 
@@ -323,15 +323,15 @@
  
 http://www.starbase.com/ 
  
  
-MultiEdit 
+! MultiEdit 
  
  
-http://www.MultiEdit.com/ 
+http://www.! MultiEdit.com/ 
  
  
-SlickEdit 
+! SlickEdit 
  
  
 http://www.slickedit.com/ 
  
@@ -395,11 +395,11 @@
 ASCII mode so the ends of lines are 
 appropriately converted. 
  
  
-On Mac OS the MacPerl Application comes with 
+On Mac OS the ! MacPerl Application comes with 
 a simple 32k text editor that behaves like a rudimentary 
-IDE . In contrast to the MacPerl Application 
+IDE . In contrast to the ! MacPerl Application 
 the MPW Perl tool can make use of the 
 MPW Shell itself as an editor (with no 32k 
 limit). 
  
@@ -524,9 +524,9 @@
 hardware. 
  
  
 A different approach is to autoload seldom-used Perl code. 
-See the AutoSplit and AutoLoader modules in the standard 
+See the ! AutoSplit and ! AutoLoader modules in the standard 
 distribution for that. Or you could locate the bottleneck 
 and think about writing just that part in C, the way we used 
 to take bottlenecks in C code and write them in assembler. 
 Similar to rewriting in C, modules that have critical 
@@ -586,9 +586,9 @@
 simulate arrays can be highly beneficial. For example, an 
 array of a thousand booleans will take at least 20,000 bytes 
 of space, but it can be turned into one 125-byte bit 
 vector--a considerable memory savings. The standard 
-Tie::SubstrHash module can also help for certain types of 
+Tie::! SubstrHash module can also help for certain types of 
 data structure. If you're working with specialist data 
 structures (matrices, for instance) modules that implement 
 these in C may use less memory than equivalent Perl 
 modules. 
@@ -838,9 +838,9 @@
  extproc perl -S -your_switches 
 as the first line in *.cmd file (-S due to a bug in cmd.exe's `extproc' handling). For DOS one should first invent a corresponding batch file and codify it in ALTERNATIVE_SHEBANG (see the ''INSTALL'' file in the source distribution for more information). 
  
  
-The Win95/NT installation, when using the ActiveState port 
+The Win95/NT installation, when using the ! ActiveState port 
 of Perl, will modify the Registry to associate the 
 .pl extension with the perl interpreter. If you 
 install another port, perhaps even building your own 
 Win95/NT Perl from the standard sources by using a Windows 
@@ -917,9 +917,9 @@
 The problem is that none of these examples are reliable: they depend on the command interpreter. Under Unix, the first two often work. Under DOS , it's entirely possible that neither works. If 4DOS was the command shell, you'd probably have better luck like this: 
  
  
  perl -e 
-Under the Mac, it depends which environment you are using. The MacPerl shell, or MPW , is much like Unix shells in its support for several quoting variants, except that it makes free use of the Mac's non-ASCII characters as control characters. 
+Under the Mac, it depends which environment you are using. The ! MacPerl shell, or MPW , is much like Unix shells in its support for several quoting variants, except that it makes free use of the Mac's non-ASCII characters as control characters. 
  
  
 Using ''qq()'', q(), and ''qx()'', instead of ``double 
 quotes'', 'single quotes', and `backticks`, may make 
@@ -957,9 +957,9 @@
  HTTP Spec 
 http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Protocols/HTTP/ 
  HTML Spec 
 http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/ 
-http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/ 
+http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/! MarkUp/ 
  CGI Spec 
 http://www.w3.org/CGI/ 
  CGI Security FAQ 
 http://www.go2net.com/people/paulp/cgi-security/safe-cgi.txt 
@@ -992,9 +992,9 @@
 perl in my C program; what am I doing 
 wrong?__ 
  
  
-Download the ExtUtils::Embed kit from CPAN 
+Download the ! ExtUtils::Embed kit from CPAN 
 and run `make test'. If the tests pass, read the pods again 
 and again and again. If they fail, see perlbug and send a 
 bug report with the output of make test 
 TEST_VERBOSE=1 along with perl 
@@ -1021,15 +1021,15 @@
  
  use diagnostics -verbose; 
  
  
-__What's MakeMaker?__ 
+__What's ! MakeMaker?__ 
  
  
 This module (part of the standard Perl distribution) is 
 designed to write a Makefile for an extension module from a 
 Makefile.PL. For more information, see 
-ExtUtils::MakeMaker. 
+! ExtUtils::! MakeMaker. 
 !!AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT 
  
  
 Copyright (c) 1997-1999 Tom Christiansen and Nathan 
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