Table of Contents

Volume 2, Issue 1 (#5), Spring 1997

Pattern Languages
The building blocks of programs.
Felix Gallo

PDL: The Perl Data Language
Compact and speedy numeric programming.
Karl Glazebrook and Frossie Economou

Perl News
What's new in the Perl community.
Jon Orwant

Surreal HTML Pages
Create travesties of web pages with The Mangler.
Lincoln Stein

Signals, Sockets, and Pipes
A graphical Perl/Tk utility for monitoring disk usage.
Steve Lidie

Futures Trading with Perl
Perl, pork bellies, and the Donchian Channel.
M. Edward Borasky