A comprehensive Perl reference contains a CD-Rom with sample scripts and applications from the book, in addition to appendices for the advanced Perl user with an alphabetized function reference for the built-in Perl functions, and much more. Original. (All Users).
Paul Conte is president of PCES, an educational and consulting company in Eugene, Oregon. He's also a senior technical editor for iSeries NEWS magazine. Paul is a widely published expert on database systems, database design, software engineering, and programming languages. He's considered a leading authority on DB2 UDB for AS/400, and his articles have appeared in iSeries NEWS, DB2 Magazine, Database Programming & Design, and numerous other publications. He has authored or co-authored four other books, including Database Design and Programming for DB2/400 (29th Street Press, 1997) and SQL Server 2000 Developer's Guide (Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 2000). Paul has a B.A. in phychology from Georgia State University and an M.S. in computer science from the University of Oregon.
Mike Cravitz is a technical editor for iSeries NEWS with more than 30 years of application development experience. A consultant, instructor; and highly regarded author on SQL, RPG, Cobol, and ILE topics, Mike was formerly a systems engineer with IBM marketing in support of the IBM midrange. He holds a B.A. in mathematics from California State University at Northridge and an M.A. in mathematics from the univeristy of California at Los Angeles. Mike is also the author if the book ILE by Example (29th Street Press, 2002).