Programming for Linguists Perl for Language Researchers [Paperback]

This book is an introduction to the rudiments of Perl programming. It provides the general reader with an interest in language with the most usable and relevant aspects of Perl for writing programs that deal with language.

• Exposes the general reader with an interest in language to the most usable and relevant aspects of Perl for writing programs that deal with language.
  
• Contains simple examples and exercises that gradually introduce the reader to the essentials of good programming.
  
• Assumes no prior programming experience.
  
• Accompanied by exercises at the end of each chapter and offers all the code on the companion website: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~hammond

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. Why Programming and Why Perl?.

2. Getting Started.

3. Basics: Control Structures And Variables.

4. Input and Output.

5. Subroutines And Modules.

6. Regular Expressions.

7. Text Manipulation.

8. HTML.

9. CGI.

Appendix A. Objects.

Appendix B. Tk.

Appendix C. Special Variables.

Appendix D. Where To Find Out More.

Index.

''Learning to program isn't really hard,' the author claims. Teaching good programming to linguists, however, or to arts and humanities students in general, isn’t really that easy a job either, in practice. This introductory book, clear and concise as it is, should be a helpful tool at the very first stages of such an enterprise. Kwee Tjoe Liong, Universiteit van Amsterdam

The really strong points of the book are the examples and exercises. These are almost all language-related and include useful, intl#×