Computer Science & Perl Programming

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The animal on the cover of Computer Science and Perl Programming: Best of the Perl Journal is a camel (one-hump dromedary). Camels are large ruminant mammals, weighing between 1,000 and 1,600 pounds and standing six to seven feet tall at the shoulders. They are well known for their use as draft and saddle animals in the desert regions, especially of Africa and Asia. Camels can go for days without water. If food is scarce, they will eat anything, even their owner’s tent. Camels live up to 50 years.

Colleen Gorman was the production editor and the copyeditor for Computer Science and Perl Programming: Best of the Perl Journal. Emily Quill and Jane Ellin provided quality control. Johnna VanHoose Dinse wrote the index.

Hanna Dyer and Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe’s ITC Garamond font.

David Futato designed the interior layout. Erik Ray, Mike Sierra, and Neil Walls converted the files from pod to FrameMaker 5.5.6. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont’s TheSans ...