The "Nutshell series" of books is head and shoulders above any other series of programming reference series, covering Perl, CGI, Java, JavaScript.

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The script, credited to Lee and Arnold Perl, incorporates (haphazardly) scenes and ideas from a scenario written more than twenty years ago by James Baldwin.

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Although O'Reilly concentrated mainly on the UNIX market for years, the rise of Internet has shot such titles as Learning Perl and Programming Perl to cult status.

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Attendee Mariya Genzel launched her company SayHired, and Sophia Perl developed the app Eventabulous, which was later invited to participate in AppNation 2011.

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Open-source programs across the board - the Apache Web server, the Perl programming language and the GNU development tool set, to name a few - are gaining legitimacy as a business platform.

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Jackson and fellow researcher Larry Pesce plan to release two tools, affectionately named Reaper and Stalker, that use Perl scripts to harvest data from the stream of location-tagged photos that are continuously posted via Twitter on services like Twitpic, YFrog, the more risque SexyPeek.

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The Center efforts are focused within the Pediatric Engineering Research Laboratory (PERL) which includes the WREX (Wilmington Robotic Exoskeleton) that allows children with weakness to move their arms in three-dimensional space in front of them, and the Cricket, a brace compliance sensor.

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